On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Markus Schlager wrote:
In Etoys there are three words: duplicate, copy and sibling (and clone). And there are two tiles: 'copy' and 'tell all siblings'.
I'm not a native speaker, whence I must ask: Is 'copy' more like 'duplicate' or more like 'sibling'. ... If it is a surprise to English native speakers though, I'd suggest to rename the tile.
Markus, I am an English native speaker. It is a surprise to me too. However, above, Bert wrote:
There is a tile named "copy". "Duplicate" is roughly equivalent to "playfield include: object copy". A difference is that for siblings, "copy" creates another sibling.
and later
Most of the time it doesn't matter if it's a duplicate or a sibling.
Therefore I agree with Bert's suggestion that only the balloon help should be changed. It seems to me that if a user is sufficiently advanced to use siblings programmatically, they will be able to figure out how to use the tile effectively despite its simplistic name.
David