If this were not translated, good luck understanding my culture and thoughts. But luckily, this is translated, so you don’t have to think about anything other than the content and the possibility that something got lost in translation — without translation, you wouldn’t even have to worry about those.
Here, literary translations and their quality are being heavily mixed into a forum environment.
In another medium, the topic was discussed in English, precisely because it was the only common language. Of course, those who did not know English or believed they had too poor writing skills could not participate. But apparently, that is an acceptable reason, because then one does not have to worry about the translator potentially losing or mixing up things — people’s language skills, on the other hand, are apparently not a problem, such as the use of wrong prepositions in English, which can quickly mess up the entire sentence meaning.
But there were clearly two lines in that discussion:
- those who are accustomed to subtitled films and translated literature were much more positive towards automatic translations
- native English speakers and those who get their films dubbed were more strongly against it
There was also a third group. Those who are categorically against the use of AI. They did not have an opinion on the translations; the problem was the tool.
But all of this is pure meta. Turn off the translations, and you can read this in its original language too. If you can.