Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Don
Why do people think you could actually translate with Google translate?
We have many questions here where people ask for a short translation. 'Use translate.google.com' is always at least twice amongst the answers. It's true that machine translation can help to grasp the meaning of a sentence - it even happens once in a while that a one-liner is translated in an acceptable quality. However, you can almost never use an automatic translation in a homework or a letter or something.
Trying to help with reference to Google translate is certainly nicely meant but it's completely counterproductive. Pasting an automatic translation as an answer makes it only worse as looks like would know what you are actually talking about.
The questioner is looking for answers not for random collections of words in a foreign language.
What is your take on this?
6 AnswersLanguages8 years ago