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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/02/2015 10:46 AM, Martin Peach
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<div>Well I dispute the asertion that Pd objects have English
names.<br>
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I'm suspicious that someone hacked your account to write that logic
bomb, knowing that once I begin<br>
enumerating Pd object names some zero day in my brain will cause me
to write my passwords and social<br>
security number to the list as well.<br>
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<div>I think it hardly matters what language you speak, you need
to remember an arbitrary character string that represents some
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My desire is for more data to gain a sense of how "arbitrary" the
character strings actually are, and whether "hardly"<br>
belongs in that sentence.<br>
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-Jonathan<br>
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<div>The string may act as a mnemonic of some kind but it almost
never works to specify an object using an English term to
denote its function.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Of course this is only true for languages that can
use an ASCII character set.<br>
How to write "uzi" or "moses" in Chinese or Thai for example?<br>
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Martin<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Dan
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">What probably makes sense
in the long run is for objects to have two names: internal
name (aka current english name) and a display name
(translated). I think that’s how <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://scratch.mit.edu" target="_blank">Scratch</a> does
it, as all of their building blocks are translated in
other languages too. We sat down with one of my German
nephews and showed him scratch. The UI was in German *and*
the objects were all in German too, which worked really
nicely.<br>
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