Totally agree, my point was that I didn't get the impression that the article was LLM-generated, for that reason. The commenter I was replying to seemed to think the article was obviously LLM-generated, so LLM-aided translation was one possible explanation, but I don't have any particular reason to believe that's what the author actually did.

I've read the first paragraph rather than skimming it now, and it does show LLM tells, and not so few as to appear accidental...

:D

> water everywhere was not only a necessity but also a marker of status, a matter of discipline, and often an aesthetic pursuit. That’s why, when you look closely at the story of coffee in the Ottoman world, you don’t find only roasted seeds, copper cezves, and foaming cups—you also encounter an unexpectedly refined culture of water. Even today, as specialty coffee digs into water hardness, alkalinity, and pH, it’s tempting to think that some of our “scientific instincts” are, in a way, echoes of the same land. water everywhere was not only a necessity but also a marker of status, a matter of discipline, and often an aesthetic pursuit. That’s why, when you look closely at the story of coffee in the Ottoman world, you don’t find only roasted seeds, copper cezves, and foaming cups—you also encounter an unexpectedly refined culture of water. Even today, as specialty coffee digs into water hardness, alkalinity, and pH, it’s tempting to think that some of our “scientific instincts” are, in a way, echoes of the same land.

but yeah I still didn't read it all or the think about the source, the website is unknown to me though.