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Re:The Shallowness of Google Translate by the_af on Sunday February 04, 2018 @09:37AM (#16302867)
Because non-gibberish doesn't mean "the best/most common way to communicate". If you speak in English like Yoda, the character from Star Wars, you're perfectly intelligible -- hence, you're not speaking gibberish -- even though (almost) no-one speaks that way in real life.

Gibberish means nonsense. If most people understand you, it's not nonsense.

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Re:The Shallowness of Google Translate by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:01PM (#16305190)
But how do you know most people understand you if you're not speaking like most people speak?
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Re:The Shallowness of Google Translate by the_af on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:10PM (#16305233)
You're right: I do not know for sure that most people understand Google Translate's translations (with more or less effort). I assume they do because I do, and because other people I know also do.
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