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alex suhoy
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The cause for embarrassment lies in the fact that Police Scotland, a public body with a multi-million pound budget, used the free and notoriously unreliable Google Translate tool to translate its website, rather than paying for the services of professional human translators. I am sure there are many skilled English to Gaelic translators out there who would be happy to take on the task for a fee. The resulting Gaelic translation would undoubtedly be superior to the machine-translated rubbish offe... See more
The cause for embarrassment lies in the fact that Police Scotland, a public body with a multi-million pound budget, used the free and notoriously unreliable Google Translate tool to translate its website, rather than paying for the services of professional human translators. I am sure there are many skilled English to Gaelic translators out there who would be happy to take on the task for a fee. The resulting Gaelic translation would undoubtedly be superior to the machine-translated rubbish offered in the 66 other languages. ▲ Collapse
 


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