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by martopix 1406 days ago
I disagree with the first part, I remember home appliances made in Asia in the 90s that came with completely ridiculous manuals, possibly translated with a dictionary and little else. Machine translation can really be good if used properly. Of course I wouldn't use it to translate literature.
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It was better than those, but many "professional" companies that would in the past hire out a group of translators to translate their documentation into various languages now just use machine translators with a cursory pass.

If you read mainly English, you won't notice it, but you'll see it if you speak a language that does have translations, but aren't primary.