This will simply help to misunderstand what the discussion is all about, an automated translator could be helpful for people who already know arabic and english, but otherwise an automated tool will never work with arabic language because its very rich and a single word could have thousands of meaning depending on the way you use it and its context.
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Element 118 discovered not created, there is a big difference since it already exist.
This will simply help to misunderstand what the discussion is all about, an automated translator could be helpful for people who already know arabic and english, but otherwise an automated tool will never work with arabic language because its very rich and a single word could have thousands of meaning depending on the way you use it and its context.
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I know its not the same, but I had posted few days ago about Google translator and how it deal with arabic-english translation http://hatem.phpmagazine.net/2006/10/not_tkhaddak
In other words I find such decision just stupid and not serious at all.