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There are many translation programmes on the market which are supposedly almost as good at translating as human beings, and I have often been asked whether translators will not soon become redundant.
In the Machine Translation process, software transfers a text word for word from one language to another. These translations are generated with virtually no knowledge of grammatical and/or style requirements, without the necessary professional background and regardless of context or target group.
Anyone intending to present their readership with correct, fluently formulated and therefore comprehensible information, will appreciate that a machine translation is by no means an alternative to a professional manual translation. And this will not change in the foreseeable future.
If you would still like to try this kind of software, visit:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Enjoy!
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