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Old 08-07-2009, 11:17 AM   #108
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
A good translator brings creativity and originality to the translation, which is why the translation deserves its own copyright.

Even a literal word-for-word translation by a human contains some original input, since words very rarely have a one to one correspondece to words in another language.
I'm not arguing against what you say, but have you seen the work Google has been doing with Wave and their translation engine within that? Amazing stuff. Live translation as you type, and very accurate too.
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