> MT is far from perfect ... but definitely useful This is, I think, the best way to look at MT. As many people here have commented, machine translations are

> MT is far from perfect ... but definitely useful This is, I think, the best way to look at MT. As many people here have commented, machine translations are often incorrect, misleading, or just incomprehensible garbage. However, in situations with enough context, people can use MT to accomplish tasks that they would not be able to do without it. Some examples, and a discussion of implications for foreign-language education, appear in a paper I wrote last year [0]. [0] https://researchmap.jp/multidatabases/multidatabase_contents/detail/232973/42b94e8ab8dd246afbf9b18cbb8ac7b4?frame_id=621150 https://researchmap.jp/multidatabases/multidatabase_contents...