{"id":734,"date":"2006-05-11T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2006\/05\/11\/representing-a-diversity-of-perspectiv"},"modified":"2008-02-23T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T01:31:47","slug":"representing-a-diversity-of-perspectives-across-language-divides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2006\/05\/11\/representing-a-diversity-of-perspectives-across-language-divides\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing a diversity of perspectives across language divides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"a1258\" name=\"a1258\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethan<\/strong>, one of  my favorite sparring partners in discussions about<br \/>\nmost anything under the sun, carved out an hour the other week to<br \/>\ndiscuss language issues and equitable representation of the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nmultitude of perspectives.  We had an excellent discussion of the<br \/>\nsubject, which became heated for a moment when it seemed we were<br \/>\nveering off into philosophy rather than a practical discussion of how<br \/>\nto improve the world&#8217;s current defaults.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote a lovely blog post about the discussion here, and followed up with a quick evaluation of a metric we had discussed.  (How can one <span>not <\/span>admire<br \/>\na person who dashes off two new metrics before breakfast?)\u00a0  But there are a few points where I would like to differ.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>editor&#8217;s note : where&#8217;d the rest of this post go? &#8211;2\/2008<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan, one of my favorite sparring partners in discussions about most anything under the sun, carved out an hour the other week to discuss language issues and equitable representation of the world&#8217;s multitude of perspectives. We had an excellent discussion of the subject, which became heated for a moment when it seemed we were veering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[207,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indescribable","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-bQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}