Yes, of course if it's not actually reviewed and corrected by a human it's going to be bad. What I said was that if it's used "as it was meant to be used", the results should be indistinguishable from a normal human translation, regardless of the language involved because all mistakes would be fixed by a person. People often neglect to do that, but that doesn't make the tool inherently evil.
-m. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Aphaia <aph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah, I omitted T, and I meant Toolkit. A toolkit with garbage could be > called toolkit, but it doesn't change it is useless; it cannot deal > with syntax properly, i.e. conjugation etc. at this moment. Intended > to be "reviewed and corrected by a human" doesn't assure it was really > "reviewed and corrected by a human" to a sufficient extent. It could > be enough for your target language, but not for mine. Thanks. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Casey Brown <li...@caseybrown.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mark Williamson <node...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Aphaia, Shiju Alex and I are referring to Google Translator Toolkit, >>> not Google Translate. If the person using the Toolkit uses it as it >>> was _meant_ to be used, the results should be as good as a human >>> translation because they've been reviewed and corrected by a human. >> >> But if the program were being used by a human who speaks the language, >> wouldn't it be *pull* translation and not *push* translation? >> >> -- >> Casey Brown >> Cbrown1023 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > KIZU Naoko > http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) > Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l