My point is that machine translation still needs human intervention, but nobody will pay for it. "Good enough" has replaced excellence. I fear that we will accept ever improving slop as good enough.

Good luck to you. Ten years ago, we said that computers would never replace skilled human translators. But here we are.

If there's no numbers, there's no problem. Stalin said, yest chelovek, yest problema. Net cheloveka, net problema" [If there's a guy, there's a problem. If there's no guy, there's no problem.] Easy peasy.

All my colleagues, skilled professional translators, are without work. Luckily, I was old enough to retire. Next are the graphic artists, voice actors, screenplay writers. As "cheap but good enough" becomes the standard...society will forget...that we once had a culture.

See Barbara Tuchman on the first word war. Europe was "sleep walking into hell." We are there again. But America thinks they can fight back with *funny memes*

Who invented the word "narcoterrorist"? Such idiocy.

Dump her and shave her head. Then we go after Kegsbreath. Then the Miller Zombie.

How can you stay with WaPo? Your mother would not be proud.

Sleep walking into hell.

He's not a war criminal. There is no war. He is simply a cold blooded murderer.

Into the vortex 🛏️

Obviously.

Indeed. Shame

Zombies clawing at a skull

Death penalty. No defence.

At some point we Europeans, are going to have to face up to the fact that the western alliance is gone. We need to be able to defend ourselves from Russia military and defend our democracies from Russian and US interference, we can't go on deluding ourselves that Trump will eventually see the light.