Reply to post: Re: Brian is listening to music on Radio Blackpool

Loose tongues and oily seamen: Lost in machine translation yet again

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Re: Brian is listening to music on Radio Blackpool

Google translate works absolutely fine with most languages so long as you start off by expressing yourself clearly and without jargon. The problem is that many people are quite unaware when they are using jargon, and are surprised by the result.

I remember reading that The Sun employs English graduates as sub-editors because they are able to express ideas at the 12-year-old reading comprehension level for which it aims. You have to know a lot to write simply.

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