Improved Translation of “Communications with Zettelkastens”
Improved Translation of “Communications with Zettelkastens”
English translation of Niklas Luhmann's 1981 German text, “Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen”.
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Thank you for doing this--your translation looks quite good.
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Thanks. The Englishness is mostly attributed to @erikh !
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Work date is listed at end in "Notes", Luhmann, 1981.
Is the original German available online anywhere?
@Eurobubba If you search around you'll find it pretty quickly. Here's the original citation:
Luhmann, Niklas. “Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen: Ein Erfahrungsbericht.” Öffentliche Meinung und sozialer Wandel / Public Opinion and Social Change, edited by Horst Baier et al., VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1981, pp. 222–28. Springer Link, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87749-9_19.
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Sci-Hub it.
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