The Pig and the Cat
Once upon a time there was a cat, and this cat enjoyed itself enormously, stretched out in front of the fire, growing fatter with every passing day. It was a good life. Everyone loved him. Everyone secretly wanted to be him. Then the pig arrived. The clods rolled in, the heat from the fire dissipated in a draughty rash, and there he was. Steaming, or something. Change had arrived, but was the pig here as saviour or destroyer? The cat is really the CAT, or Computer-aided translation, and I am the pig, the Kopy Pig, a proof and copy editor for a translation agency for the past decade and a half. My mission is to bring translation out of the shadows of darkened offices and into the spotlight of modern business. But I am not offering a new dictionary, grammar upgrade or CAT tool app. Pigs don't hand out goodie bags, you must know that! The language industry today is a tree hung low with fat and juicy plums, each waiting to be plucked by business. Remember the emergence of multi...