Paul,

 

Well said!

 

Best regards,

 

Daryl

 

N. B.  Incidentally, I think that the “persuasion” debate on this thread is not off-topic to the OP’s question regarding Web site translation, and I appreciate your note.  As AILACT’s mission and materials are extended to a truly global audience, we need to be clear about basic vocabulary.  For example, as the persuasion debate (in a single language!) indicates, I suspect that the expression, “critical,” may be mistranslated in a way that departs from AILACT’s scope of interest. 

 

I have no bright ideas about how to audit translated pages beyond multi-lingual volunteers who have a shared understanding of AILACT’s scope and mission, and can rule fair or foul.  Web site maintenance would be more involved under such a model, so even modest accuracy in translation may not be a realistic goal.  This isn’t an argument against the translation idea, per se, but it may be a reason for translated pages to contain a prominent statement that the English site is the AILACT Web site of record and that it should be preferred wherever possible.

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Daryl Close, Ph.D.

Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy

Heidelberg University

Tiffin, OH  44883

 

419-448-2281 (office)

419-927-2514 (home)

 

E-mail:  dclose [at] heidelberg [dot] edu

 

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In sharing a language, in whatever sense this is required for communication, we share a picture of the world that must, in its large features, be true.  It follows that in making manifest the large features of our language, we make manifest the large features of reality.

 

Donald Davidson, “The Method of Truth in Metaphysics” (1977)

 

 

 

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