Machine Translations

Subject: Machine Translations
From: "Curtis Brautigam" <curtisb -at- nurserysupplies -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:28:46 -0500

I do not trust any of the machine translation software out on the market.
While some of the software is better than other software, the output leaves
a lot to be desired. Nothing can replace the human translator with knowledge
about the intricacies of the source and target languages. For translations
of technical manuals, I would stay away from machine translations and
translation software and rely instead on people to do the work. It will
involve more money, but it is well worth it. There are too many horror
stories of bad translations which I do not want to discuss here.

Curtis R. Brautigam
Technical Writer
Nursery Supplies, Inc.
Chambersburg, PA.


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