There is an acknowledgment found in the dicta and anecdotes in these papers by translation educators; it is alternately anxious and confident: Language is dynamic. So translator training must not be static. Norms change; it is as simple—and threatening—as that. "Norms" include semantic shifts, accepted neologisms, new conventions, idioms, and borrowings. Even acceptable syntactical arrangements change. And if this inexorably happens within a single language, then it certainly happens in interlanguage transfers as well. This means, of course, that translators, and, above all, those training future translators, have not only a veritable mission to be current- and future- oriented. They also, like all teachers, have a more serious mission to be exemplars of appropriate professional behavior. Perhaps the professional motto should be Henry James's advice: "Be a person on whom nothing is lost".