Always nice to read Hofstadter, but in my experience Google Translate often returns gibberish even for single words, never mind subtleties of grammar. I don't

Always nice to read Hofstadter, but in my experience Google Translate often returns gibberish even for single words, never mind subtleties of grammar. I don't think it replaces a foreign language dictionary yet, so arguments that it doesn't replace human translators seem like overkill! Random examples for Japanese: for "七輪" (brazier) it returns "tambourine", for "ちゃぶ台" (tea table) it returns "Shabu-bashi".