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If I translate a text from English into another language and back into English, why dont I receive my original English text?

April 26, 2017English Language original text translate

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If I translate a text from English into another language and back into English, why dont I receive my original English text?

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The two most important things to remember about MT are that no automated translation is perfect, nor is it intended to replace human translators. When you translate a sentence, for example, from English to French, a certain degree of inaccuracy is involved. Therefore, when you translate this slightly inaccurate sentence back into English, you get the translation in accuracy of the first sentence multiplied by the inaccuracy of the current translation. The more you translate the text back and forth, the more inaccurate the translation will be.