> ...making even older tools like Google Translate far more accurate. My experience is that Google Translate has become far more polished, but often less accur

> ...making even older tools like Google Translate far more accurate. My experience is that Google Translate has become far more polished, but often less accurate. Crucially, I am especially annoyed when it negates the sense of a sentence. > understanding that context brought me much closer to the true meaning Could this effect be part of global acceptance[0] of US pop culture? Certain pockets[1] aside, much of it is self-contained, more Hemingway-like, rather than making heavy use of references beyond the work, Joyce-like; thin characterisations obviously translate far more directly. [0] seeing russian music videos containing basketball, latin-lettered yellow Simpsons-style school buses, and cheerleaders is ... disconcerting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7BbrxJMBZw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7BbrxJMBZw (but maybe less disconcerting than swedes making a video for their slow with a US-civil-war theme? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwmM93jgUo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwmM93jgUo maybe one of these days I'll see a US video set during the Stormaktstiden?) [1] Rogers: "I understood that reference"; Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.