<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes, I agree with this, at least in spanish it doesn't seem like a big deal to have object names in spanish. often they're close enough or exactly the same cos, osc, +, etc…<div><br></div><div>Help patches would be very helpful though…</div><div><br></div><div>J<br><div><br><div><div>On May 2, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Martin Peach <<a href="mailto:chakekatzil@gmail.com">chakekatzil@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Well I dispute the asertion that Pd objects have English names.<br></div><div>I think it hardly matters what language you speak, you need to remember an arbitrary character string that represents some function. 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></div>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><br>Martin<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Dan Wilcox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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 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><div>
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