Google Translator

This week's assignment reminded me of French class in high school when everyone would always try to get out of doing their homework by using a program like the Google translator for English to French translations. By doing this assignment it's obvious to tell why the trick usually failed miserably. Because the Google translator translates the words individually they are taken out of context and the setences usually turn out gramatically incorrect or non-sensical. I agree with what Katie said in her post about people who's professions are involved with tranlating languages and how they would have to be very skilled in the different languages to properly convey messages. This assignment allowed me to see the difficulty that the translator really does face as they not only have to know how to speak both languages but also how to manipulate the words into conveying the same message in the other language.