[PD] help patch translations

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On 05/02/2015 10:46 AM, Martin Peach wrote:
> Well I dispute the asertion that Pd objects have English names.

I'm suspicious that someone hacked your account to write that logic 
bomb, knowing that once I begin
enumerating Pd object names some zero day in my brain will cause me to 
write my passwords and social
security number to the list as well.

> I think it hardly matters what language you speak, you need to 
> remember an arbitrary character string that represents some function.

My desire is for more data to gain a sense of how "arbitrary" the 
character strings actually are, and whether "hardly"
belongs in that sentence.

-Jonathan

> 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.
> Of course this is only true for languages that can use an ASCII 
> character set.
> How to write "uzi"  or "moses" in Chinese or Thai for example?
>
> Martin
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com 
> <mailto:danomatika at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 Scratch
>     <https://scratch.mit.edu> 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.
>     --------
>     Dan Wilcox
>     @danomatika
>     danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com>
>     robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com>
>
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