Re: translation

Imo, translation adds a lot of noise, which makes discussions with
customers and co-workers a lot harder because everybody thinks in another
language, which causes focus on translations instead of the concept at hand.
Also, the translations tend to be done rather poorly, either because there
is no good word for the concept in English, or because the dev translated
it poorly. Both increase the noise problem even more.
We tend to stick with dutch for domain concepts and english for technical
stuff. It looks a bit silly (KlantRepository) but I think  it's
actually quite consistent, because the domain language of technical stuff
tends to be in english (repository, controller, adapter, that sort of
stuff). Translating that would introduce a similar problem.
I guess it does make hiring external help harder, but usually understanding
the domain is hardest, and I don't know if just translating the words in
code is gonna be enough to make them understand. Even if it does, I'm not
sure if that's gonna weigh up against the problems above.
Just my experience..

-Freek