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On machine translation in Japan...
Thread poster: Mario Cerutti
Mario Cerutti
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Mar 19, 2019

Since the last few years, Japanese end clients and translation companies alike seem to have fallen in love with machine translation. Some translation companies even use Google Translate to check human translations, and they seem to place a lot of faith in it.

The Japanese in general are known for being especially fond of technologies and everything that speaks automation. But look her... See more
Since the last few years, Japanese end clients and translation companies alike seem to have fallen in love with machine translation. Some translation companies even use Google Translate to check human translations, and they seem to place a lot of faith in it.

The Japanese in general are known for being especially fond of technologies and everything that speaks automation. But look here:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=1830811#.XJCUaPn7TmE

This says a lot about the Japanese's proverbial sensitivity to foreign languages, that's all.


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