In defense of Google Translate, I will have to point out two constraints of machine translation that human translation usually do not face. 1. Machine translat

In defense of Google Translate, I will have to point out two constraints of machine translation that human translation usually do not face. 1. Machine translation lacks a direct conception of the physical world: it only understands the "grammar" imposed by physical constraints indirectly through digitized verbal corpora and hand-constructed parameters. 2. Machine translation does not have the luxury of understanding their target audience's domain knowledge. Much of the jargon Google Translate does not understand comes from very specific situations that few people generally experience, e.g. Pan-Germanic. Normally, if such words were used in a news article, the journalist should have to spend a sentence or two describing what is meant by using those words. If Google Translate was tuned to favor translating jargon into jargon, it is likely that its translations would contain much jargon from various domains of experience and be very difficult to read in general.