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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by JackFr on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:01PM (#17979635)
I could care less.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by JackFr on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:23PM (#17984288)
Okay down voters, I guess I was being to clever by half.

My point was idiomatic translation is hard. “I could care less” means it’s literal opposite.

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by beojan on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:13PM (#17991009)
It's an iffy example, since many people consider 'could care less' to be incorrect.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by JackFr on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:41AM (#18006939)
But the point is machine translation needs to work on language the way it is, not the way it should be.
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