Re: What ubiquitous language should we speak?

Probably use different languages for different bc according with the
language spoken by that bc's domain expert?
On May 31, 2013 11:13 PM, "guterfluss" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I live in Belgium. The upper part speaks dutch, the lower french. My
> native tongue is dutch. The domain experts we work with speak dutch, french
> or sometimes english.
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> Sometimes we even have a dutch speaking domain expert that leaves the
> company and is replaced by a french speaking domain expert.
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> For these reasons I see no other possibility than to use english as the
> universal language. Unless you would know for sure that your customer will
> always be using dutch speaking domain experts.
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> However, talking to domain experts in a language that is not yours and is
> not theirs as well is not that hard, but you tend to miss a lot of the
> small details of the language.
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> So currently, we're constructing our UL by translating it from
> dutch/french to english. The code is in english, the conversations with the
> domain experts are in dutch or french.
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> The sad thing is that the translations aren't always very good. We might
> use google translate to come up with some english translation but most of
> the time we end up with plain poor english. Things like
> 'something.assignSomethingElse()' or 'something.updated()' or
> 'something.doXXX'.
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> So I guess, english speaking developers have a head start on others when
> doing DDD.
>
> I would like to know what others do in this situation when working in an
> environment where the language is not english, where you're working with
> domain experts that don't speak your language or when suddenly your domain
> expert's language changed.
>
> What ubiquitous language should we speak?
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> Greetings
> Jan
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