The top 10 translation errors to avoid (+ examples)
Whether you’re a government agency, a start-up or an e-commerce site, translation errors can damage your reputation or even ruin it. Bad translations can lead to crises and/or embarrassment in any language pair. To illustrate this, we’ll take you through 10 examples of machine translation errors to avoid!
Machine translation tools are very useful, saving professional translators valuable time. But it’s important to be aware of Read more
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