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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 h
by 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 agoWikipedia 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 agoMaybe 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 agoEnglish 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 agohttps://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 agoOr the original translation from the article in a UK newspaper could be kept, by just keeping the original title.