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Why does it have to be direct translation? Why not convert the meaning from
one lingo, such as English, then into a Symbol for the idea/concept, and
then back into the other lingo, such as Spanish?

I know still some room of oppses, but ...

Man=symbol for man (like you see on the bathroom door)=spanish for man.

Mike

George Ho wrote:

> I used to be fascinated by the idea of machine translation. After years
> of practice in the real world translation, I suppose machine translation
> is just a toy for people in the ivory tower.
>
> I don't believe machine translation can really become commercialized in
> the near future. Every good translator knows that translation does not
> only involve linguistic skills but cover a wide range of knowledge
> database. They must be very versatile. Otherwise there will be no "guts"
> in their works. Besides, a good translator, like a good writer, depends
> on their inspiration more than often and tends to change their wording
> from time to time to make their translation as perfect as possible. I
> don't believe a computer can do that sort of self-polishing at all.

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