It's always interesting to compare machine translation of French to my (albeit limited) translation of French. I tend to prefer cognates, even if they're a bit

It's always interesting to compare machine translation of French to my (albeit limited) translation of French. I tend to prefer cognates, even if they're a bit obscure, to more colloquial translations, since I think it preserves a bit more of the original text. For instance, "Drôle" in French is usually translated to "Funny", but I would translate it to "Droll". I also try to keep the sentence structure closer to the original, which does make my translations look like they were written by Shakespeare. Something that I really like in regards to the implementation of FB translation is that I can select languages that I don't want to be automatically translated. For French, German, and Spanish, I'd prefer to at least have a crack at it before translating it, but for other languages like Turkish, there's no point. One thing I don't like so much though is that for automatically translated languages, they replace the original text and don't make it super obvious that it's a translation. I do feel like there's a bit of language colonialism going on with that.