Death By Grammar

[The_DarthMoogle]

Google Translate is getting far too good at French,

seeing as so many kids like me are using it for their exams.

[The Merchant of Menace]

Yeah, trying to figure out a non native speakers' terrible grammar is much easier than trying to figure out google's terribad translation.

[hoho]

seeing as so many kids like me are using it for their exams.

And getting what kind of results?

If it's >60-70% then something is terribly wrong with the grading system or expected level of language skills.

[jakj]

I have no idea what country he's in, but the grading system in the US doesn't actually fail you until you reach <60%. (90% is A, 80% B, 70% C, 60% D, below that, F.)

[The Merchant of Menace]

He's in the UK.

[Adlersch]

If you already have some knowledge of the language and then use a translator, you can see some mistakes it makes, tweak it a bit, make sure sentence structure is correct, and tada! Fake results. Lots of people in my German class would do that.

[Towen]

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[okamikk]

If you already have some knowledge of the language and then use a translator, you can see some mistakes it makes, tweak it a bit, make sure sentence structure is correct, and tada! Fake results. Lots of people in my German class would do that.

If that's anything like a false positive, no thanks. As someone who prizes himself on knowing the things he's talking about, i'd rather get a bad grade from the things i DO know, than get a good grade from, for example, a translator.