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It is also faster for professional programmers to run something through stack overflow and paste the top voted answer into their code.

Not being a translator I wonder how good of an analogy this is

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Not a very good analogy since the translator knows the correct translation before hand and therefore can identify the incorrect translation produced, whereas someone using stack overflow does not know the correct answer before hand.

Not a translator, but a tri lingual person here. Often the decision what is a "correct" translation is not simple or unambiguous. As to the use of stack overflow, we all have our own experiences.

Its a little hazier than that. Someone using stack overflow might not know the exact answer (else why look) but may know enough to choose between answers and recognize the one most likely to solve their problem.

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