Forwarding for yahoo user roman diaz <romanmdeo_1...@yahoo.com> Robert J. Lang wrote:
>>> So, here's the place where I throw it open to the list (or at least, those who have waded through this long posting): what do you think we should use as a short, ideally single-word descriptor, of the object and the person, and why? >>> In the case of music the two terms that best describe the person who plays somebody else´s composition are "performer" and "interpreter" (while "player" sounds as inespecific as "folder") Origami is not generally a performing kind of art (well, with lots of honorable exceptions, see Jeremy Shafer or many others) so I tend to favor "interpreter" The term describes not only the fact of passively folding or neutrally performing instructions, but actively decoding the authors work and rendering their own version. Though I agree it might sound awkward, even in Spanish. Román
