The Night Before Translation Deadline

’Twas the Night Before Deadline (A Linguists’ Tale) ’Twas the night before deadline,

and all through the house, Not a glossary stirred, not even the mouse. The term base was

loaded, the style guide was near, In hopes that clear meaning soon would

appear. The linguists were nestled with screens glowing bright, Parsing context

and nuance deep into the night. With coffee in hand and deadlines ahead, They balanced the

words dancing inside their head. When out on the screen there arose such a phrase—

An idiom tricky in culturally ways. Away to the corpus they flew with great speed,

To search for the meaning the message would need. Not word-for-word, no—never that way,