‘Automation’ of translation I think is coordinate with a modernist episteme I like to call “neoliteralism” or “slop referentialism” — the ideology that words from different languages are merely labels you use to identify things that are preexisting and universal
Paul Bernal“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.