Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system failure'

Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by mynameisvlad on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:39PM (#38223505)

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?

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Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by dontlaugh on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:19PM (#38224683)

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.

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Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by mynameisvlad on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:30PM (#38234200)

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/charter-...

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.

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Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by dontlaugh on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:35PM (#38234783)

Or the original translation from the article in a UK newspaper could be kept, by just keeping the original title.

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