Can Google Translate be used in Bible Translation?

Have you ever asked yourself why Bible translators can't use Google translate to speed up their work?

Here's a fun video just to demonstrate how that would work out.  Ha ha ha....

But, believe it or not, there is a serious side to this light hearted blog post.  

If any computer geeks are reading this... (you can send this link to a geek) please check out what our colleague Bren Briggs (whom we met at Urbana15 while he led the Wycliffe portion of the Urbana hackathon and he slept on our couch for a night or two) is doing with technology to improve and speed up Bible translation.  He and some volunteer geeks are working on something that is NOT like Google translate but it will help a whole lot of Bible translators with some open source technology that neither of us Ramseys understand!

Like I might have already mentioned, Bren's project is open source and he is always welcoming developers who want to help with the project... more info on GitHub