People actually vote on which translation is best, and Duolingo throws in some wrong translations in these tests to weed out people who are poor translators.
Historically, the government has paid translators below-market rates, a practice that has led to poor work, translation company executives said.
That means the poor old human translators are helping to build the robots that could take their jobs, doesn't it?
A common complaint from the battlefield is the poor quality of many translators who simply do no possess the English language skills......to properly convey the meaning of locals.
The story so far: Poor but celebrated writer and translator Felix Mondazy has been invited to appear at the Moving Finger International Literature Festival in Britain where he will defend the art of literary translations.
She broke the rules of everyday Japanese, but the way she did it was more fun, and she made the Japanese language richer, instead of torturing the poor thing as some older translators did".
The company also does random spot checks to weed out translators who deliver poor quality work.
