Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-35757757-20200203003317

Why are machine translators (Ex: Google Translate) so bad?

...no, I don't mean "why aren't they allowed to be used for translations on this wiki?" Because that's obvious: the translations usually end up bad.

The question is WHY the translations end up so bad if the machine translators are designed to, well, translate. It kinda makes them fail at their purposes. Though I'm pretty sure stuff like Google Translate is meant for single words anyways so maybe that's why... I don't know. That's why I'm asking.

Though on the bright side: Google Translate makes good comedy. 