Translationese

I recently set up a small blog on GitHub Pages. It was almost effortless—pick a theme, tweak a few parameters, and the site is live. Since I was already tinkering, I decided to make it bilingual. Every post now starts in Chinese, then gets translated into English with the help of an AI model. The quality of machine translation today is, frankly, impressive. Most of the time, a light round of editing is enough before publishing. ...

March 11, 2026 · 3 min · 470 words