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What's your success rate with online translator programs?

I've found Google Translate and similar, e.g. Babelfish, work well on some languages but other languages come out as English "but not as we know it Jim" (Spock). Are online translators really that bad or is it a case of garbage in garbage out or that they can't handle idiomatic language?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Success rate is close to zero. I do not use them anymore.

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