Hi, Jennifer and others -
I offer a database for mutual use at my website - an international
glossary of Open Space terms and phrases.
I have to do a bit of fixing and adding as my website got hacked into
some time ago and it messed with some of the different-alphabets-than-
mine languages.
There are also great recent contributions by Raffi (Armenian) and some
of our other colleagues that I will soon be adding.
By the way, my observation is that the best people to translate Open
Space terms and phrases are either native-speaker Open Space
facilitators -or- professional translators who converse about it with
Open Space folks -or- people with broad and diverse language
vocabulary who spend thorough time with an Open Space person to
understand the nuances of these concepts -or- poets.
The nuances of selecting amongst different word choices to carry
meaning through culture and language (rather than literally
translating the individual words) is in my experience, essential.
And there are regional differences as well. For example for Spanish it
is sometimes useful to know which country you may be using the posters
in - perhaps that is true for some other languages as well. I will
illustrate this example by saying that one way to translate the
'Whoever comes...' guideline in Spanish is fine; however if you use
that same Spanish translation in at least one Spanish-speaking country
it has a sexual connotation, which had my colleague Joc Clark's
meeting break into friendly laughter - a real 'ice-breaker' indeed...
The glossary is at:
http://www.openingspace.net/glossary.shtml
This summer I will refresh my website and add some more resources for
sharing...
Lisa
Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
lisah...@openingspace.net
www.openingspace.net
On May 24, 2010, at 3:10 AM, Jenifer Toksvig wrote:
Is there a database somewhere of the four principles and stuff in
various languages? If there is, and if Danish isn’t in it yet, here
they are:
Whoever comes is the right people – Hvemsomhelst kommer er de rigtig
mennesker
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have – Hvadsomhelst
sker er den eneste ting som kunne være sket
Whenever it starts is the right time – Hvornår det begynder er den
rigtig tid
When it’s over, it’s over – Når det er færdigt, er det færdigt
The Law of Two Feet: if, during our time together... etc, as per
page 95 of the book
Loven om To Fødder: Hvis, mens vi er sammen, du befinde dig i nogen
situation hvor du hverken lære eller bidrage, brug din to fødder og
gå et andet sted mere produktiv.
Be prepared to be surprised – Være parat at bliver overrasked
Jenifer Toksvig
ne...@acompletelossforwords.com
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