It's great for getting the gist of a news story that's published in Japanese or Finnish, but if I need to write a formal letter to someone in one of those languages, I'd get human help.

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Perhaps someone should write another letter to the White House.

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And, in the days that followed, someone would write an angry letter to the editor complaining that these people weren't melting into the pot.

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