Why do the online translators suck

[MustISO]

Different translators say different things. Is it just really hard to translate?

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: MustISO
Different translators say different things. Is it just really hard to translate?

Yes.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: MustISO
Different translators say different things.

Do you drive a car, vehicle, automobile, or a horseless carriage to work?

 

[Snapster]

It's easy to translate one word, but translation of a sentence and maintaining the original context is not. Take English, we can have many meanings for the same word depending how it's used within a sentence.

 

[nakedfrog]

And poor me had to go through life without an online translator at all for the first twenty three years or so. Now all we've got is sucky ones :roll:

 

[Colt45]

it's a machine. language isn't always uh

ah, fvck it.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: MustISO
Different translators say different things. Is it just really hard to translate?

Yes, yes it is. There is usually no one-to-one correlation between words/letter/phrases of differing languages. There's not a set of discrete rule that can just simply be applied.

Computers aren't smart, ya know. They "understand" ON and OFF, and nothing else.