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Removed good translator?

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I saw this site with a good translator, and it was this site. I used to translate english text into spanish text, of course. I had to deliver a text to my teacher. The translation worked splendidly, I got good feedback. I even checked to see if the text was correct in some spanish forums on the net, it was correct, but now that I tried to translate a text I was a little suspicous, I double checked the answer.. first: English to spanish Then I took the spanish text i got and copyed and pasted it to do: spanish to english it was suddenly without meaning. Is it just the double checking method that was wrong, or have you changed the translation in some way? please give me an answer as quick as possible smile

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updated Feb 1, 2010
posted by wlsn

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The translators aren't proprietary to SpanishDict.com, we just link to them. This site has had the same translators since I've been here, almost a year. They are considered the three best machine translators on the web.

But as Nizhoni said, machine translators are far from perfect. If you got perfect translations from them before, you just got lucky. Or you fed them with simple sentences that they had no trouble with.

And definitely your method of translating from one language to another, then translating back again is extremely unlikely to get the same results, even if the translation is accurate.

updated Feb 1, 2010
posted by Goyo
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Machine translators are ...machines.They are fairly new and may never be as accurate as the human mind, I hope.

updated Feb 1, 2010
posted by nizhoni1