Machine translation vs Dictionary

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LANGUAGE IS POWER DO YOU THINK YOU ARE USING MACHINE TRANSLATION PROPERLY?

CAUTION

THIS MACHINE HAS NO BRAIN

USE YOUR OWN


Machine Translation is used by 200 million people each month. 71% of students and non-professionals worldwide considered it a great solution for sporadic translations. Even though it is an amazing resource for translating short pieces of text, it is often neither efficient nor accurate for proper communication.

Using a dictionary can help you prevent mistakes that could make you seem nonprofficient in front of your boss or teacher. Take a look and see for yourself what the proper dictionary could do for you.


CAMARÓN QUE SE DUERME, SE LO LLEVA LA CORRIENTE.

REFRAINS

SHRIMP THAT FALLS ASLEEP, IT CARRIES CURRENT. REFRAINS CANNOT BE TRANSLATED LITERALLY. A MACHINE TRANSLATION DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE INHERENT DIFFERENCES AMONG REGIONAL LANGUAGES


ME PRESTAS UNA PLUMA?

CONTEXT

CAN YOU LEND ME A FEATHER? MACHINES MAY BE FAST AND ACCURATE, BUT THEY CAN’T COMPRHEND CONTEXT. DICTIONARIES CAN GIVE YOU EXAMPLES OF HOW TO USE WORDS PROPERLY.


CUÁNDO ERA PEQUEÑA CASI REPRUEBO LA MATERÍA DE CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA, PERO POR SUERTE ESO NO PASÓ.

INCONSISTENCY

WHEN I WAS LITTLE I FAIL ALMOST MATTER OF LIFE SCIENCES, BUT THANKFULLY DID NOT HAPPEN

WHEN YOUR WRITING IS CONSISTENT, IT APPEARS THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO EXPRESS. FORMAT, SPELLING, AND PUNCTUATION CAN BE LEARNED THROUGH A DICTIONARY, NOT WITH A TRANSLATOR MACHINE.


GÜEY, QUÉ PEDO?

REGIONALISM

OKS, WHAT I FART? MACHINES CANNOT TRANSLATE REGIONALISMS. THERE ARE WORDS WITHOUT AN EQUIVALENT IN OTHER LANGUAGES. DICTIONARIES CAN HELP YOU FIND THE PROPER PHRASE WHEN COMMUNICATING.


PEPE PECAS PICA PAPAS

PLAY ON WORDS

PEPE PICA FRECKLES POTATOES WHEN TRANSLATING MACHINE TRANSLATI JOKE LOSE ITS MEAN UNDERSTAND THEM, DICTIONARY FORUM BETTER CHOICE.

PUNS, THE ON MAKES THE ING. TO AN ONLINE WOULD BE A


FUNNY, HUH?

C AN YOU IM GINE YOUR TE CHER OR BOSS EXPRESION IF YOU RE UN BLE TO COMMUNIC TE PROPERLY LEND ME A FEATHER? A

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DON'T BE THAT LAUNCHING THE NEW PERSON! POCKET DICTIONARY This is the greatest invention since soccer!"

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Dr.Bar-On

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Since I began David 's class, all I use for his

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assignments is the Online Oxford's dictionary. "

José Luis Paredes

Pronuntiation

Part of speech

Spelling and examples



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