Not only do you have to find an excellent translator, one who works well in both languages and is a stylist to boot (or who can work in tandem with someone else, like the excellent Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky do in Russian), but the copy editing and proof reading take on a new layer of work.

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Frequently the system has the fluency of a barely competent human translator, one who happens to be both distracted and drunk.

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One of the first things I was able to do for PhaseOne was act as a translator.

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