[Foundation-l] Push translation

[Mark Williamson]

Yes, of course if it's not actually reviewed and corrected by a human
it's going to be bad. What I said was that if it's used "as it was
meant to be used", the results should be indistinguishable from a
normal human translation, regardless of the language involved because
all mistakes would be fixed by a person. People often neglect to do
that, but that doesn't make the tool inherently evil.

-m.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, I omitted T, and I meant Toolkit. A toolkit with garbage could be
> called toolkit, but it doesn't change it is useless; it cannot deal
> with syntax properly, i.e. conjugation etc. at this moment.  Intended
> to be "reviewed and corrected by a human" doesn't assure it was really
> "reviewed and corrected by a human" to a sufficient extent. It could
> be enough for your target language, but not for mine. Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Casey Brown <lists at caseybrown.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Aphaia, Shiju Alex and I are referring to Google Translator Toolkit,
>>> not Google Translate. If the person using the Toolkit uses it as it
>>> was _meant_ to be used, the results should be as good as a human
>>> translation because they've been reviewed and corrected by a human.
>>
>> But if the program were being used by a human who speaks the language,
>> wouldn't it be *pull* translation and not *push* translation?
>>
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