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duskdozertoday at 2:35 PM4 repliesview on HN

If you don't know English and you want to write English anyway, please just use a machine translator.


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mrweaseltoday at 4:43 PM

From experience: If you don't know Danish, please don't ever use machine translators to translate from English. Regardless of what some people may think, they make mistakes, so many mistakes.

I get why it's tempting, good translators are expensive, and few and far between. A friend of my is a professional translator and she's not exactly in need of work, but a lot of customers look at her prices and opt for machine translations instead and the result not always impressive. Errors range from wrong words, bad sentence structure to an inability to correctly translate cultural references.

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victorbjorklundtoday at 3:40 PM

And the machine translator is using AI to translate the text

GaggiXtoday at 2:38 PM

Why? A model correcting your errors is a powerful tool to learn the language, much better than just writing the phrase in your native language.

UqWBcuFx6NV4rtoday at 2:49 PM

…what? no? why?