What actually is lost in machine translation?
Ever since its release, “Lost in Translation” movie never ceases to encourage people to talk about the best of their lost in translation moments. Language is quicksilver and slippery—the meaning of its words cannot be fixed, and the grammar rules cannot be generalized. And even if one tries to do, the results are either drastic or hilarious. You may have come across the ambiguous statement “Dogs must be carried on an escalator” that linguaphiles could not stop ranting about on social media. The statement is not grammatically incorrect but is grammatically ambiguous leading to so many interpretations that the writer’s […] Read more