Why does pragmatic failure occur more often in machine translation than literal translation of safety instructions?

💡 Explanation

Pragmatic failure occurs because machine translation often lacks the necessary real-world context to accurately interpret the speaker's intention; therefore, the translated instructions fail to convey the original meaning, rather than failures stemming from purely syntactic or lexical inadequacies.

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