On translating
Translate the words into whatever your table speaks; keep the numbers, because line six is line six everywhere.
A word is a tool, and a tool is meant to fit the hand that holds it. So the words of the Game are translated freely: into the language of your table, into the idiom of your trade, into whatever a grandmother will actually say to a grandson. Nothing is lost by that; a word held in a language nobody speaks at home is already a dead word.
What is not translated is the order. The twelve words keep their numbers, and the fourteen lines of the Season Sheet keep theirs. A sheet written in a language no one in the receiving room has ever heard can still be read, because line six is commitments made and kept wherever it is written, and line nine is the season's story. The numbering is the whole of the interoperability: it costs a table nothing and it makes ten thousand tables one game.
This is one of the seven minimum standards of interoperability, and the cheapest of them to keep — the same words on line one, translated freely, the lines kept in order. A group that keeps it can run entirely under its own name, in its own tongue, with its own culture, and still be read on any day it chooses by any other group on Earth that keeps it too.
Translation is therefore an act of the commons, not a local convenience. A good translation is offered back the way a proposal is: written down, sent up at a turning, and carried in the next edition so the next table does not begin again.
Also called: keep the numbers, translate the words Stands on: The Twelve Words · Word Tools · A Word on Words Opens onto: Minimum standards of interoperability · The Season Sheet · An address · Proposal · The edition · Cross-Cultural Pattern Translation In play: table · beyond Sources: The Twelve Words, "On translating" (canon-grade) · The LIØNSBERG Operating System, standard 3 (draft) · The DNA of Heaven, Parts VII and XII (Fable synthesis, unreviewed) · lionsberg.wiki: The Twelve Words Open: the rule is stated for the twelve words and the Season Sheet's fourteen lines; whether it binds the numbering of any other card is not yet said anywhere.