From CAT tool to cat drool
Where am I and how the hell did I get here? If you don't know what a CAT tool is, I wouldn't worry. There will be a time, not so far from now, when they will simply cease to exist. But for the record, let me break the acronym down for you: Computer Assisted Translation tools do what they say on the tin. The human brain is designed to discard information it doesn't deem important, otherwise we'd all be walking around with epic headaches, regurgitating the license plate number we caught sight of last week, and reeling off each item on last Tuesday's shopping list, complete with prices. CAT tools are like a plug-in for the human brain. Think of them as massive dictionaries, an archived log of every single phrase and sentence you ever translated, how you translated it, and what the context was. Companies, and specifically agencies, like you to work with them for several reasons. Firstly, CAT tools make you fuck up less. You can instantly search for a specific cli...