Irmy: I slept with
someone for it. Does that make me a whore?
Kleinmann: [Referring
to the money he's holding] This?
Irmy: Just one person.
Does that make me a whore?
Kleinmann: Well, no,
only by the dictionary definition.
---Shadows and Fog
I’m looking at the program for the “Great Translation Debate,”
a virtual conference organized by ProZ.com and TAUS. One session will dicuss
the proposition that “Translation automation is good for the industry.” That is
orthodox debate structure: You float a proposition and two teams argue, one of
them for and the other against. That is the ritual structure set up in Oxford
debating societies and practiced in universities throughout the world. However,
in this case, we have a very curious twist on that venerable model. In the
immortal words of Sideshow Bob: “Oh, Cousin Merle, really…”
