A machine translation system produces a fluent draft of a public-facing text. The human translator notices that the tone is too casual, one culturally marked phrase has been flattened, and a key nuance of obligation has been softened. Why is human intervention still necessary here?
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A machine translation system produces a fluent draft of a public-facing text. The human translator notices that the tone is too casual, one culturally marked phrase has been flattened, and a key nuance of obligation has been softened. Why is human intervention still necessary here? 
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Because human judgment is needed to evaluate adequacy, tone, cultural fit, and communicative consequence.

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Because post-editing only involves restoring punctuation and spelling.

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Because corpus tools are more important than any form of revision.

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Because machine translation can never produce grammatically correct text.

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