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Beyond Words
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The Swedish word 'lustigt', meaning funny or amusing, is circulating among users in Sweden. Beyond the word itself, no specific event, person or story can be confirmed from the available information. Readers are encountering it in Swedish-language posts, but what precisely prompted the spike remains unverified.
- 2Machine translation disqualifies translators from credited fiction work●Talked to someone who has been dabbling in translating fiction. This guy was horrified when I told him that if he uses m
A Swedish archaeologist reports a conversation with an amateur fiction translator who was startled to learn that using machine translation for anything beyond checking individual words means he cannot put his name on the finished translation. Under most publishers' rules and copyright frameworks, such work is ineligible for translator credit and protections, since authorship is reserved for human translation.