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Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla... by petepete on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:02AM (#17653173)
I used to work for a Language Service Provider (LSP). Typically it's used in marketing material, because a directly-translated slogan or message might might not 'work' in another language or culture. It might just sound bad or clunky, or it could even be offensive in certain contexts.

As others have said, the resulting text should convey the same meaning in the same tone, but needn't be word-for-word correct.

Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla... by iandioch on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:28PM (#17655125)
A good example of this going wrong is described here, with the "spunk" debacle: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/05/time-coca-co...