Whenever anyone raises the idea that AI can take the place of translators, point them in this direction.
Simon Beggs
In the vein of this, and as an example, this blog post about the work of translator Anthea Bell is excellent:
auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...
As promised in a previous blog entry, what follows is a discussion of the translation of some of my favourite Asterix gags. The translators’ modus operandi was to include as many jokes in the Engli…
Translation is a form of creation. The translator has to make decisions about preserving style over direct content, about cultural equivalence, about how to preserve a sense of pun or sentence structure from one language to the next. People who assume an LLM can do it are not understanding the task.
