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Machine translation can bring blunders but it can succeed if humans use it wisely according to Adam Wooten

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neilmac
neilmac
Espanha
Local time: 14:17
espanhol para inglês
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Made my day Nov 25, 2011

I'm still laughing!

Seriously though, MT is getting better and better every day so we have to live with it, the downside is that it is like giving a monkey an Uzi...
 
Lingua 5B
Lingua 5B  Identity Verified
Bósnia-Herzegóvina
Local time: 14:17
Membro (2009)
inglês para croata
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Very original restaurant name Nov 25, 2011

... but an orthography issue remains, they forgot to capitalize it, it's a name/title isn't it:

Translation Server Error

Being as good as human translation, GT should know when and how to capitalize.

Here are some other interesting restaurant names:

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... but an orthography issue remains, they forgot to capitalize it, it's a name/title isn't it:

Translation Server Error

Being as good as human translation, GT should know when and how to capitalize.

Here are some other interesting restaurant names:

http://redshoeschronicles.blogspot.com/2010/08/wtf-restaurant-names.html





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Machine translation can bring blunders but it can succeed if humans use it wisely according to Adam Wooten







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