Quality | 2009.09.23
Rhodri Marsden: Can language translators be trusted – and which is best?
Which online language translator does the best job? A page of text in an unidentifiable language presents few problems for the modern web junkie with a dismal E in GCSE French. A couple of clicks, and that page can easily be rendered in their mother tongue – provided said tongue isn\'t the obscure Aboriginal dialect of Enindhilyagwa. Yahoo\'s Babelfish, Microsoft\'s Bing Translator and Google Language Tools vie for supremacy within the sphere, battling to stop a simply-expressed idea such as "please take your hands off my wife" from losing important nuances and becoming "I offer you the hand of my wife."
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