2026-10-01 00:48 UTC
@antonio106@ottawa.place @mrundkvist@archaeo.social Someone might read the translated text.
More serious answer: literal translations can look ludicrously wrong, or oddly laboured, or include things that only make sense if you know the original language well enough to see what phrase the original text might have had and how it might have been misinterpreted. Eg the Swedish tweet I once saw translated as "Welcome, new tracking devices!".
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@antonio106@ottawa.place 2026-10-01 01:47
@timtfj@mastodon.social @mrundkvist@archaeo.social so would it be plausible to have a first working draft as a machine translation and then have a human go over it to fix idioms and the like or would that simply be more work than doing a bespoke human translation? I say this all hypothetically. I'm not trying to encourage anyone but I'm genuinely curious about the craft.