Why You Should Never Trust A Free Machine Translation Engine

by | Mar 24, 2016

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, umm, I mean, translation.

Not everyone will agree with this video (though, of course, we think they should). Machine translation is great if you’re just using it to understand your great-great-aunt’s most recent letter from Italy. But for work? C’mon, you’re kidding, right?

 

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