Many people are slightly puzzled by translation services. After all, we are in the new millennium. We have trains that float over the tracks and go 300 miles per hour. We have cannons that can fire bullets at nearly the speed of light, and we have refined metals so strong that a fork can hold the weight of an elephant. So why do we still need document translation services?
There are hundreds of software programs that can translate text into all the languages in the modern world. So you could ask: Why do companies continue to pay for translation services? The truth is that it is because language is very complex in itself, and when you try to translate one from another, you need to understand the reasoning and logic behind each sentence you read.
Have you ever wondered why you can type the same sentence in Google translate and get two answers? What if you change some letters to uppercase so that the translated sentence looks different? Did you notice the multiple options that they give you on the right? Or how if you translate something into English and the sentences come out garbled and the grammar and syntax of the sentences are terrible? This is because the language is not a mathematical code and therefore cannot be perfectly interpreted by a software program.
When you buy document translation services, you are buying the experience of a person who fully understands the two languages involved. You are buying the time of a translation expert who knows the difference between a tear like a tear and a tear like a tear in jeans. He is buying the time of a person who can construct a sentence based on the meaning of a foreign sentence, rather than based on the composition of the sentence (ie his words).
Translating from one language to another is hard enough, but imagine a software program trying to translate a technical document. Technical documents are difficult when read by native speakers, so you can imagine the mess a software program would make. Without technical translation services, trade between two companies from different countries would take years to fully communicate with each other. Can you imagine buying Japanese machinery for your high-tech factory without advanced technical translation services? The agreement and the process would simply be unattainable without a massive exchange of personnel from one company to another.