In this paper I will discuss the experience of teaching the culture of the Polish language and its norms to active translators who enrolled in the postgraduate course Poprawna polszczyzna dla tłumaczy, weryfikatora i postedytorów (Correct Polish for translators, proofreaders and post‑editors). My aim is to discuss the linguistic problems faced by the translators, which they expected to be clarified during the postgraduate studies. I will also draw on the experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students of neophilology in classes on cultural and linguistic issues, i.e. on the experience gained in training adepts of the art of translatology, i.e. future translators, post‑editors and proofreaders, in the Polish language norm. I will conclude the whole with a theoretical and teleological postulate: a new philosophy of the linguistic norm (in teaching) and a proposal for a probabilistic conception of the linguistic norm.