11. Worldwide Room

The Worldwide Room in the Clean Collection is where our colleagues in other countries have translated the Clean Language questions and articles from our web site, as well as having contributed their own articles.

Currently the Clean Language questions have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

James and I have been involved in some of the translating of the Clean Language questions and were amazed how exacting this could be.  In France they spent a long time trying to find the most appropriate translation for the “And is there anything else about ...?” clean question, while in Italy it was the “And that’s like what?” question which had translators scratching their heads. The process each group went through to find the words to convey the function of each question would be worthy of displaying in the Applications Room — if only someone had written it down!

While Metaphors in Mind has been published in both French and Italian, many of the translations of the questions are still work-in-progress, so if you have a suggestion or comment please send it to the Worldwide Curator for these pages, Phil Swallow using the contact form.

We welcome relevant articles in other languages, or offers to translate existing articles.

Adios, arrivederci, au revoir to this room, and on to the last room which features Classic NLP.