[Gretl-users] Re: translations

Thank you Stefano for sharing this. Le mer. 11 nov. 2020 à 14:46, Stefano <stefano.fachin(a)uniroma1.it&gt; a écrit : Yes! And at some point you have to ask if it's worth introducing some non-english terms at least for those most common acronyms. Getting back to gretl, this is for instance what I'm trying (timidly) to do with gretl's albanian translation. Research publications from the Central bank of Albania, the National statistics office and other locally-based economic research groups widely use translated descriptions and acronyms but university textbooks still heavily use english ones instead. So I'm always mixed-up where to find the right balance between these two different experiences. For instance, in italian OLS is referred to verbally as such, with the That's really surprising to me indeed! I tend to compare with french-speaking teaching and experience of econometrics :) And I think that for such "complicated" things the use of the original English acronym does make sense. Bottom line: in Italian full names should be translated but acronyms should From this end, I'm sure that our french-speaking friends would not appreciate an "OLS" acronym instead of "MCO". Indeed, you find no french econometric courses or textbooks where OLS, WLS, GLS, GMM, MLE... are not "in french", both as a label and an acronym. :) Ouf :) All the best, Artur