It is very easy to ruin a book even with manual translation. E.g. Albert Camus's The Stranger was first translated by some old English guy who brought in signi

It is very easy to ruin a book even with manual translation. E.g. Albert Camus's The Stranger was first translated by some old English guy who brought in significant cultural aspects to the book that didn't exist in the french. Google translate is nice enough for the quick grokking of post but it is nowhere close to even the badness of manual.