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I translated "How to use Web?" but if I translate it back to English, it is not the same as first time I translate this.

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    This isn't about using Google Translate, but rather about language translation. As such it's not on-topic for Web Applications. It may be on-topic at Linguistics.
    – ale
    Commented Jan 9, 2018 at 0:40
  • Yes it is on-topic. I've tried asking a year before and now confirmed no one wants to close it.
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    Commented Jan 27, 2019 at 0:00

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Because that's not how languages work. Languages rarely have a one-to-one relationship to a word or phrase. We just get "close enough", based on context, to convey the same idea. Further, other languages have different rules about word order, punctuation, etc. There's really no way, except for the simplest sentences, for a machine to take a phrase, translate it to one language, then translate it back and restore the original phrase.

All that said, this isn't really a question about using Google Translate, but rather about translation in general.

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