[Pattern-language] Note to the Evergreen language faculty ~~ Thanks in advance for distributing!

[Doug Schuler]

Miguel et al,

We are moving forward with translations which is very exciting. it looks like Arabic is next!

The translation effort is very interesting because the LV patterns don't lend themselves to "literal" translations because they describe concepts.

Based on the discussion below, the very concept of "pattern language" is difficult to translate.

Any thoughts on these issues??

BTW, many languages are still eager for more pattern card text to written in them! I hear calls for German, French, Russian, and almost every other one as well!

Thanks!

— Doug

PS. Over the past year or so I've been getting a number of translations for the pattern cards (which are abbreviated versions of the patterns). In fact we now have Spanish translations for all 136 patterns (http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns_spanish), approximately 90 in Mandarin (http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns_chinese), and smaller numbers of translations in Russian, French, Korean, German, Serbian, Hebrew, and Greek. It now looks like we have some interest in Arabic and Portuguese as well. (To see the current state of the various translations, go to http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ and click on the PATTERN LANGUAGE tab just under the Public Sphere Project logo at the top of the page.)


> 
> Hola Doug,
> 
> It's an interesting question for linguistic inquiry. "Lenguaje" is certainly appropriate; as for patterns, "patrones" is indeed correct, but "pautas" could be an alternative that sounds to me more like patterns as guidelines.  I think whichever word is familiar to the most readers, and that might be patrones. Thanks for the link, I'll explore further. Several students took me up on reading a sample selection.
> 
> Saludos, 
> David
> From: Doug Schuler [douglas at publicsphereproject.org <mailto:douglas at publicsphereproject.org>]
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Note to the Evergreen language faculty ~~ Thanks in advance for distributing!
> 
> Hi Dvid,
> 
> Maybe too late for today, but I think  lenguaje de patrón might be best? 
> 
> BTW, there is a link to the Spanish patterns here! https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenguaje_de_patr%C3%B3n <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenguaje_de_patr%C3%B3n>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I hope it goes well. I'd love to hear about it.
> 
> — Doug
> 
> 


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