(Robot arm places soy
sauce on Penny’s palm)
Penny: Oh ha-ha.
That’s amazing!
Sheldon: I wouldn’t say
amazing. At best,
it’s a modest leap
forward from the basic technology that gave us Country Bear Jamboree.
—The Big Bang Theory (2010)
I see that ProZ.com and TAUS are organizing a virtual conference about technology. For
those who don’t know what TAUS is, it is an organization set up by several
large translation sellers and buyers to enhance the sharing of translation
memories, either for use as TMs or as raw material for training machine
translation software. It is billed as
“The Great Translation Debate” about technology and localization. Which I find utterly endearing for its absolute lack of
self-awareness. Hello? The irony warehouse called (they’re kind of running out).
It is sort of like the Schutzstaffel and the Sturmabteilung getting together in
1930s Berlin to organize a conference on “The Future of Judaism in Europe.”
