Mini editing rant

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So, I've recently started editing more, and am working with a pretty cool TL-er. But, I've noticed something, and it has nothing to do with the TL-er, because I've seen this with others, but sometimes Chinese -> English translations have so many freaking repetitions. Does China not allow a thesaurus or something? I wondered for a while if it had something to do with the characters having a lot of different meanings, but I would assume that would create the opposite situation where there was nearly no repetition. Even when I read a novel via mtl, I see whole phrases double typed. Do they not have kind souls to proofread for them? Is there no spell/grammar check? And I realise that different countries have different grammar, but really? And does mtl just suck that bad that it auto-reads things repeatedly?

Ugh, don't mind this rant, I'm just tired of being glued to a thesaurus right now and repetition kills me.
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    1. Naruin Jul 18, 2019
      im not sure in mtls since google dont give precise translations but those repetitive phrases maybe due to cn authors wanting to lengthen their works?
      i think i once saw google translate 2 different cn text but have same english text
    2. Kiskaiya Jul 18, 2019
      In some cases I can see that. Especially when an mtl sys something like "he walked and he walked". But when repeatedly using a word or phrase, I can't really see that as anything except laziness. But, I also realise that is my own bias
    3. Silver Snake Jul 18, 2019
      Repetition could mean emphasis?
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