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US immigration uses Google Translate to scan people's social media for bad posts – Er, don't do that, says everyone else

Jens Goerke

My first job in IT was translating manuals and software, so I would read an English paragraph for understanding, then write the same content in German, often badgering colleagues who knew the topic for details so I wouldn't introduce errors.

I learned quite a bit about image processing, typography, and DTP in general during those times...

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