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Old 12-09-2011, 12:52 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner View Post
For the love of KITTENS, don't ever think of publishing a machine translation. You get ungrammatical near-gibberish, if you are lucky.

I think readers who are interested in reading English novels will look around English languages sites, too - goodreads, librarything, review blogs of whatever genres they like. Amazon.de will also recommend English language books to me because I bought others before.
You are absolutely correct about this. For Now. But in the future? I believe that it is only a matter of time before translations, done by machines that are now the top-grade super computers, will be close enough for an editor to peruse without significant discomfort.
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