Firstly, participant A pointed out that he would avoid a
mechanical translation process and repetitions.
To amateur translators, or people new to the field, Translation Cloud intends to serve as a sort of
mechanical translation tutor, tracking the accuracy of their proofreading skills.
(1) 'Although the first ideas for
mechanical translation were made in the seventeenth century, it was not until this century that means became available for realization with the appearance of the electronic computer in the mid 1940s' (Hutchins, 1997, pi).
He felt that the innovative service offered definite advantages and could lead to another marvel: simultaneous and
mechanical translation," which was being used to great effect at the United Nations and had been a huge success when tested the previous year in Ottawa at the North Atlantic Alliance conference.
Much of the confidence in the scope of
mechanical translation, which marked the 1950s and early sixties, has ebbed.
A framework of a
mechanical translation between Japanese and English by analogy.
By using rolling drums, belts, wheels, perforated tape and typewriter-like output methods, were the first truly
mechanical translation devices (Freigang 2001).
First, one sees the typical
mechanical translation of rnam pa (akara, "form, shape, figure, aspect, appearance, expression, sign, identity") (2) as "aspect." Even more troubling, however, is the translation of mkhyen pa as "exalted knowledge." One assumes that, in "exalting" this "knowledge," Powers has sought to render the impact of the honorific language (zhe sa) in which the Tibetan translators have couched the Sanskrit term (i.e., mkhyen pa, rather than shes pa).
Attempting to avoid the
mechanical translation of critical truisms into Bakhtinian terminology, Roberts reminds us that dialogism includes genre as well as voice, and that it is through their interaction that social forces and ideologies are represented.
In addition, using a rotating galvanometer mirror (two-dimensional scanner), the optical system can scan a large surface much faster than the
mechanical translation of a conventional detector.