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Re:Firefox is getting language translation by hombre_fatal on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:36AM (#21322876)
For Spanish, at least, it definitely isn't better than Google.

And recently everything I had to look up while reading Gabriel García Márquez, DeepL didn't know. After enough failures I gave up and returned to Google Translate for the remainder of the book.

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Re:Firefox is getting language translation by TuringTest on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:14AM (#21323802)
Google may have a wider range of words, but DeepL is definitely much better in grammar and idioms, which Google tends to translate literally.

Moreover, Google often provides a single target word; whereas DeepL allows you to select from a range of synonyms clicking on a word, and will adjust the sentence accordingly to use the new word. When Google gets the context wrong and provides the wrong meaning for the translation, DeepL's capability to translate with a different meaning is invaluable.

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