The article says "Another unvarying element of the Google Translate versions is the word "boat" for barco, a perfectly correct rendering of a simple Spanish nou

The article says "Another unvarying element of the Google Translate versions is the word "boat" for barco, a perfectly correct rendering of a simple Spanish noun. But in English, we have the expression, "When my ship comes in," ... Translating barco as "ship" brings an echo of that deep history of longing into our first, fleeting image of the narrator, Don Diego de Zama, who lives in the hope of a ship that will come to save him." This sounds rather grandiloquent to me. But more significantly, my father was the captain of a ship. One of his pet peeves was people mistakenly interchanging the words "boat" and "ship". The two terms are not equivalent (boat being a small vessel, and ship being a large vessel that might even be expected to carry a boat of its own, viz, a lifeboat). If he heard that human translator taking liberties with his nautical vocabulary, he'd have a cow. So do we want Google to translate more accurately, or do we want it to strive for a literary flair?