Aren machine translations just as good?
While machine translations can be useful tools for transferring the gist of a message, they remain vastly inaccurate and inefficient. Language is a human activity and no computer has the creative capacity of the human brain. As just one tiny example, consider the difference between a “wise man” and a “wise guy.” Machine translations are incapable of translating many such subtle distinctions. For personal use, it can be handy, but it should be avoided for any and all professional purposes. Texts of any length will end up sounding choppy and most often containting serious errors.
