When I first got interested in the subject, in the mid-1970s, I ran across a letter written in 1947 by the mathematician Warren Weaver, an early machine-translation advocate, to Norbert Wiener, a key figure in cybernetics, in which Weaver made this curious claim, today quite famous: This baffles me.Īs a language lover and an impassioned translator, as a cognitive scientist and a lifelong admirer of the human mind’s subtlety, I have followed the attempts to mechanize translation for decades. Indeed, many thoughtful people are quite enamored of translation programs, finding little to criticize in them. But my skepticism was clearly not shared by these two. How odd! Why would two intelligent people, each of whom spoke the other’s language well, do this? My own experiences with machine-translation software had always led me to be highly skeptical of it. Frank would write a message in English, then run it through Google Translate to produce a new text in Danish conversely, she would write a message in Danish, then let Google Translate anglicize it. However, to my surprise, during the evening’s chitchat it emerged that the two friends habitually exchanged emails using Google Translate. As for his friend, her English was fluent, as is standard for Scandinavians. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. If any questions arise related to the accuracy of the information contained in the translated website, refer to the English version of the website which is the official version.One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. Any discrepancies or differences created in the translation are not binding and have no legal effect for compliance or enforcement purposes. The official text is the English version of the website. Some content (such as images, videos, Flash, etc.) may not be accurately translated due to the limitations of the translation software. Translations are provided as a service to users of the Global Village website, and are provided “as is.” No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made as to the accuracy, reliability, or correctness of any translations made from English into any other language.
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