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Submitter here I didn't want to editorialize, so I used the original title. I changed "free school" to "charter school" which may make contextually more sense

Submitter here I didn't want to editorialize, so I used the original title. I changed "free school" to "charter school" which may make contextually more sense. I hope that's acceptable.

dontlaugh 3y ago
"Charter school" doesn't mean the same thing in different English speaking countries.
- mynameisvlad 3y ago
  The English Wikipedia page for “charter school” specifically talks about friskola as an example of one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school#Sweden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school#Sweden
  - dontlaugh 3y ago
    Wikipedia is using the US meaning of the word for some reason. I'm don't think translating "firskola" to UK English as "charter school" would be correct, just like no one uses the term "charter school" to refer to institutions in the UK.
    - mynameisvlad 3y ago
      Maybe because it’s the common definition of the world for majority of English speakers. The UK is not the end all be all of the English language. Something can be a common term everywhere else in the world. If nobody ever uses the term in the UK, then why would its definition matter or be different?
      - dontlaugh 3y ago
        English is a second language for many Europeans and we tend to use the British variant. It matters because the original title was changed to a term only popular in one country.
        mynameisvlad 3y ago
        https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/charter-school# https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/charter-... https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/charter-school https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng... There is only one definition. If someone doesn’t know the term, they can look it up. Your original comment claimed that it means different things in different countries, but that just doesn’t seem to be the case. The term seems like the appropriate English translation, even if it doesn’t exist in the UK.
        dontlaugh 3y ago
        Or the original translation from the article in a UK newspaper could be kept, by just keeping the original title.
- trealira 3y ago
  > The current system, in place since a few decades, is akin to a voucher system. I.e. the funding is ultimately via the taxpayer, but through different organizations. As an American, this sounds like exactly like a charter school system is. Or do you mean that the word is used differently outside America in other anglophone countries? From looking up the term online, it seems like it's mainly an American term.

Submitter here I didn't want to editorialize, so I used the original title. I changed "free school" to "charter school" which may make contextually more sense. I hope that's acceptable.

dontlaugh 3y ago

"Charter school" doesn't mean the same thing in different English speaking countries.

mynameisvlad 3y ago
The English Wikipedia page for “charter school” specifically talks about friskola as an example of one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school#Sweden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school#Sweden
- dontlaugh 3y ago
  Wikipedia is using the US meaning of the word for some reason. I'm don't think translating "firskola" to UK English as "charter school" would be correct, just like no one uses the term "charter school" to refer to institutions in the UK.
  - mynameisvlad 3y ago
    Maybe because it’s the common definition of the world for majority of English speakers. The UK is not the end all be all of the English language. Something can be a common term everywhere else in the world. If nobody ever uses the term in the UK, then why would its definition matter or be different?
    - dontlaugh 3y ago
      English is a second language for many Europeans and we tend to use the British variant. It matters because the original title was changed to a term only popular in one country.
      - mynameisvlad 3y ago
        https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/charter-school# https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/charter-... https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/charter-school https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng... There is only one definition. If someone doesn’t know the term, they can look it up. Your original comment claimed that it means different things in different countries, but that just doesn’t seem to be the case. The term seems like the appropriate English translation, even if it doesn’t exist in the UK.
        dontlaugh 3y ago
        Or the original translation from the article in a UK newspaper could be kept, by just keeping the original title.
trealira 3y ago
> The current system, in place since a few decades, is akin to a voucher system. I.e. the funding is ultimately via the taxpayer, but through different organizations. As an American, this sounds like exactly like a charter school system is. Or do you mean that the word is used differently outside America in other anglophone countries? From looking up the term online, it seems like it's mainly an American term.