That nicely illustrates something I've tried to explain SO many times to developers and "content creators".
I know machine translation exists. I know how to call on it if I need it.
But if you turn it on without asking me, much of the time I'll be translating back into English to try to understand what the hell you were trying to say. You make more work for me, not less.
Better machine translation won't fix this, if you don't give it context. You could have the best machine translation in the world, but if you just gave it the word "Share" and told to translate to German, it would have had to make a guess on whether you meant share as in stock or share as in distribute.
The worst is, some sites like YouTube seem to reward creators for "localised content", pushing them to make garbage translations of things I can perfectly well read, and serving up that instead of the original.
I know machine translation exists. I know how to call on it if I need it.
But if you turn it on without asking me, much of the time I'll be translating back into English to try to understand what the hell you were trying to say. You make more work for me, not less.
Better machine translation won't fix this, if you don't give it context. You could have the best machine translation in the world, but if you just gave it the word "Share" and told to translate to German, it would have had to make a guess on whether you meant share as in stock or share as in distribute.
The worst is, some sites like YouTube seem to reward creators for "localised content", pushing them to make garbage translations of things I can perfectly well read, and serving up that instead of the original.