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@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 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.
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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika
danomatika.com


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