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Translation tools got good. That changed the job, not the need
Machine translation handles the predictable middle of a document well. The parts that carry risk are still the parts that need a person. [sample]
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Proverbs are not decoration. They are argument
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Why mother-tongue literacy still decides who succeeds in school
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Proverbs are not decoration. They are argument
Akan proverbs compress a whole position into a sentence. Translating them flattens something that was never only orname…
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