Auto translation vs French in Quebec

The Gazette ponders the future of French as automatic translation becomes ubiquitous. Recently I saw someone complain at seeing so much English in /r/quebec, then people told him Reddit had recently reset a lot of users to see auto translated postings by default. I’d seen it myself but it was so weird seeing /r/quebec in English that I knew there was something up and switched it off.

The article makes a point that sometimes auto translations can be inaccurate or misleading. I wouldn’t read Tolstoy or Murakami in auto translate, but if you just want the gist of a news story it’s fine.