"In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in 1 million books. To put it another way: what all the professional human translators in the world produce in a year, our system translates in roughly a single day. By this estimate, most of the translation on the planet is now done by Google Translate."

- Google research scientist | Google Now Translates As Much Text in a Day As Human Pros Can in a Year 

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    So long as google translate is shit, there’s still a market for linguists. As soon as they hire linguists, there won’t...
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    yeah, and they do it with the skill of a stubborn high school student with half a semester of remedial (insert language...
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