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> I don't speak German but mixing and matching between the three, I'm guessing the ranking for this example is Bing, DeepL, Google.

It is not a good idea to rank translations that you do not understand. That's part of the problem I am trying to point out here. "Zum Witz" is not correct--at all. "_absolutely MOP die floor_" makes no sense; it's painful Danglish. And, again, the literal translation of the metaphor "mop the floor" is not a good translation.

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Yet, together with the machine, given no other recourse, I would have been able to extract the essence. As an example, I originally missed your english text and thought the task was to translate the german. I ran the garbled german through a translation engine and got something that made not much sense. It was still enough for me to guess that the intended meaning should not be too distant from "a bilingual speaker would leave the machine translator in the dust".

For what it's worth, I consequently ran this by a native german speaker. It's perfectly reasonable to rank them, understanding is not a binary proposition.

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