Don't trust Yandex Translate. It is your "enemy" here!

Let's be fair to Yandex Translate, because fairness is what separates us from people who smash the dislike button on perfectly good test just because they didn't understand it. 

Yandex Translate is a wonderful invention! And it can help. Genuinely. It's a tool, and tools work — when there's a mind holding them. Used with your brain switched on, it will give you the meaning of a word, untangle a phrase, and get you out of a tight spot at 2 a.m. when the word "nevertheless" is staring at you.

Disclosure!!!

Here's the disclosure:

• Words — it translates right. Nearly always.
• Phrases — it translates right. Almost always.
• Big texts — it cannot translate without losing the meaning. This is not a bug. This is just what happens when a machine translates sentence by sentence without ever seeing the whole picture.

Let's imagine it's a dictionary.

And that's the whole point of this post, wrapped up in one sentence: the translator is not the problem — trusting it blindly is. Use it as a dictionary. Let it hand you the words, and then you build the meaning. 

One word.

And I can repeat! 

You can use Yandex Translate. Just use it with your mind. Otherwise you're not reading the test — you're reading the robot's opinion of the test, and the robot has no opinion, only a dictionary. It is absolutely ridiculous! 

So, let it go!

It is not that complicated!

And one last thing. If you are reading this post right now through a translator, just know that you have understood nothing. Not the jokes, not the irony, not the point. The mirror has been held up to the mirror, and both of them are confused. 

Learn English, come back and read it in English. You can do this!

I hope I made it sound easy.

Thank you for understanding.

P.S. If you're a native-speaker who has read this whole thing anyway, I told you it didn't concern you. But thanks for coming. I hope you enjoyed reading this pain.