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by 7402 296 days ago
I took an intensive first-year Latin class last summer (The Latin Workshop at Berkeley).

Very early on, we were given a sample of a translation into Latin by Google, with the assignment to list dumb grammatical mistakes that Google had made.

I think this was to cause anyone who had the idea of using Google to help with homework to abandon THAT idea pretty quickly!

It's not a good idea to use Google to translate into Latin.

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Which is weird, because Latin has a very formal grammar. If a language is usable with Chomsky's production rules, it's latin.