• ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Oh I bet. I’m not multi-lingual, unless you count body language :p. Learning English was hard enough as a kid. When I was talking about spoken languages I was refer to random comments online, and sometimes not fully translated games to help get the gist of what’s going on.

    For professional work, I prefer to hire an expert.

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      3 hours ago

      For professional work we hire experts (who use AI as their first pass, but then “clean it up” to their “high professional standards using native speakers”) - and then we do another pass with “subject matter experts” who both speak the language and work directly in our field, becaue the “professional humans” typically don’t have those niche experiences. We recently made this procedure 100% required after the “human professionals” effectively translated On to mean Off for one of our controls…