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To Babel and Back

Okay, so how "good enough" is machine translation? Can you understand it? You decide. In this example, we entered into Google Translate a portion of the story of the Tower of Babel in King James English, translated it into Arabic, and then retranslated it into contemporary English.


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Article | The young American soldier recalled the time in Iraq he came across the badly burned little girl. He was on patrol. Trouble ahead. A house had been set on fire. In front of it was the girl, just standing there, all alone.

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