I don't think that 'kids auto-translating their homework' is a reason
for not doing it.
They could do that today with other languages.
Anyway, most teachers will automatically spot machine translations,
and possibly some will already be using Google translate to catch the
lazy and stupid.
I automatically give a detention to any pupil that's been stupid
enough to hand in Google's translation without checking and altering
it.
That said, it's a really good help to some of the less able pupils in
understanding structure and word order in German.
Curiously, it's not very good at Rumanian (and a lot of Rumanian is
derived from Latin).
On Dec 25, 9:44 am, Simosito wrote:
> It would be useful and funny (I think of kids auto-translating their
> Latin homework).
> The problem with Latin is, anyway, that words can mean a lot of
> different things (just like in English)...
> Anyway +1
>
> On Dec 24, 11:49 am, lluís-esteve wrote:
>
> > Yes!!
>
> > I am interested in this topic for some time and recently I have
> > included the proposal in an article for a trade journal.
> > I work in the world of historical archives and we need this tool to
> > facilitate understanding of old records to new generations.
> > We also are working on tools for automatic transcription of old
> > records. That is the future!
>
> > On 22 Des, 23:08, David Saiz Santos wrote:
>
> > > I vote for adding Latin to Google translate. For lawyers,
> > > philosophers, priests, scientists, etc. it is very useful.
