Machine translation has always been notorious for just being bad. It’s great if you’re playing around or lost in a country and need help, but when applied to professional translations the results are, more often than not, shockingly terrible. When The post Why Machine Translating Japanese Media is a BAD Idea appeared first on J-En Translations.
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