unbearable lightness catalogue - urban design charrette

[Kurt Nemes]

Dear Artur.
Thank you so much.  I am a native English speaker and I didn't understand a word
of that messages about charettes or charognes or whatever.


Kurt Nemes, Information Officer
Information Solution Group
Client Relations Training Team
The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433
Email:  Knemes at worldbank.org
Tel: +1 (202) 473-2230,




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Chris (and all):

Sorry to come to the language question again...

For those of us (a few in this list - and not growing - but the large
majority in the world) that are not natives of the English language, there
are words and expressions that are not easy to understand, if we don't have
the time to go to a Dictionary - and sometimes even if we do that :-(

For the sake of an "Open Space World", when possible please use words that
can be easily understood by foreigners, or at least - as Lisa does
sometimes - please clarify the meaning of the idiomatic or difficult words
or expressions that you use.

I suppose that I opened this mail, as, from the subject, I couldn't
understand anything... But after reading it I am still confused.

Can someone please clarify what does this mean: "unbearable lightness
catalogue - urban design charrette"?

"Unbearable" is "someone or something that we can not transform in a bear"?
And if something is "bearable" can we transform it/him in Winnie-the-Pooh
or in Christopher Robin? May I say (after looking at the Dictionary) that
"I can not bear" something that I can't understand? (E que nisso sou
semelhante a muitas outras pessoas, que não conseguem achar graça ao que
não percebem...)

And "charrette" is "a voiture pour porter des fardeaux, à deux brancard et
deux ridelles" or is it some English word that is not in my English
Dictionary?

With care and best (pluri-linguistic) wishes

Artur

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At 15:53 11-02-2004 -0500, Chris Macrae wrote:
>Jennifer
>
>Thanks for your mail. I was wondering what's the unique feature about the
>chArrette that an open space facilitator who also happened to have some
>content proposals to debate with a community bof place wouldn't
>intuitively integrate into an applied consulation inquiry
>
>I quickly read what you sent; and it all looked good and typical of what I
>often see in processes that mix open space and other methods to iterate
>communal understanding and choices to date
>
>So that's why I am asking is their a specific charrette focus that olnly
>expert charrette people buld in?
>
>cheers
>chris macrae

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