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Itistruethattherehavebeengreatadvances intechnologyoverthelastforty years.
.................... the use of mobile phonesande-mailcommunicationarecommon
these days.....................,machinesthattranslatefromonelanguagetoanotherare
stillintheirearlystages.

....................thatamachinecould neverdoas good a job as a human,....................
whenitcomestointerpretingwhatpeopleare saying....................., machines can
translatestatementssuchas“Whereisthe bank?”butevensimplestatementsarenot
always straightforward.................... themeaningdependsonmorethanjustwords.
.................... the word “bank” has a
numberofdifferentmeaningsinEnglish.Howdoesatranslatingmachineknowwhich
meaningtotake?

....................understandwhatpeoplearesaying, you needtotakeintoaccountthe
relationship between the speakers andtheirsituation.Amachinecannot tellthe
differencebetweentheEnglishexpression“Look out!”meaning“Becareful!”and“Look
out!” meaning “Put your head out of the window”.You need a human beingto
interpretthesituation.
....................withwrittenlanguage,itis difficultforamachineto knowhowtotranslate
accurately....................werarelytranslate every word....................., we trytotake
intoconsiderationhowtheideawould beexpressedintheotherlanguage.This is
hard to do.................... every

languagehasitsownway ofdoingandsayingthings.
....................Ifeelthatitismostunlikelythat machines will take the place of
humansinthefield oftranslatingandinterpreting.Ifmachineseverlearntothink,
perhapsthentheywillbeina positiontotakeonthisrole.

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