[lbo-talk] Sounds like Faulkner

[Michael Simkin]

Can you distinguish machine-translated German text from William Faulkner's
prose?

Take this quiz to find out:

http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/sounds_like_faulkner.html

Automatic translation is poor translation.
For example, Google translates Kafka's  "Die Verwandlung"  as "The
Conversion".
You may suppose that you can easily distinguish such text from the one
produced by an established author.
In practice  this may be more difficult to do than you think.

Mikhail Simkin