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Broken English in scientific papers are, if anything, a problem. I have a brother-in-law who doesn't speak English, but gets his papers translated into English
by jbm 3y ago
Broken English in scientific papers are, if anything, a problem. I have a brother-in-law who doesn't speak English, but gets his papers translated into English to publish. There is no way for him to really know if they precise, accurate, and correct; as the person who knows his own research the best, he simply cannot review the paper.
As it might be possible for us to eventually improve our machine translation, it might be more valuable to keep his papers in Japanese.
- nmstoker 3y agoThis is a fine example, because the text has a few grammatical errors but they do not impair intelligibility so shouldn't matter. The challenge comes where errors may have impacted intelligibility or worse still changed their meaning. This kind of misunderstanding is common and I'm not surprised it needs extra effort - I had a major disruption this week when an ESL coworker misunderstood the meaning of a particular ambiguous word in a project even though this exact difficulty was anticipated and time was spent up front to clarify it.