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Interesting detail. Assuming the original was Catalan or Castilian or some other Latin language, I think a machine translation of a short phrase about "ideolog
by asveikau 5y ago
Interesting detail. Assuming the original was Catalan or Castilian or some other Latin language, I think a machine translation of a short phrase about "ideological freedom" is likely to be accurate. Most of Europe uses the same handful of Greek and Latin roots to express that. (In English we have "freedom" from a Germanic root, but you get the idea.)
- thaumasiotes 5y agoI agree - in this case, the Google Translate translation is very likely to be correct without problems. But I see two problems anyway: 1. This is the kind of thing where if there is a problem, it can easily be a huge problem. One of the simplest translation mistakes you can make, for example, is to come up with exactly the opposite meaning of what the original said. 2. Smithsonian Magazine is literally adding a tag to their article that says we do not stand by our reporting. Maybe it's true, maybe it's false; they don't know and they don't care. If it's false, that is, according to them, Google's problem, not theirs. This cannot meet even the bare minimum standard of acceptable journalism.