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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by akiselev on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:04PM (#24853962)
> The professional translators I work with say that to them, it looks like Google translates its web sites with Google Translate, rather than with a native-speaking human being.

Or worse yet, outsource to a low cost firm whose translators add their own semi-illiterate or colloquial flourishes to Google Translator output.

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by londons_explore on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:23AM (#24856860)
Google translators are outsourced to a company which doesn't have access to the product - they are literally given a spreadsheet of strings and told to "translate these". No wonder the translations are sub-par.
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