Teilgebende

15:36 Apr 1, 2023 

Obviously a contentious phrase. Yes, I was looking for a paraphrase or even a term that would help indicate the nature of give and take that is involved. The term isn't used throughout the 200 page document, but only in a small paragraph, so whilst making up an English word - in the same way as the author has done - wouldn't cause too much confusion, it seems a little gimmicky to do so.

Most of the suggestions have active connotations and possibly don't apply to those people who passively read the information provided by these communities, without posting at all themselves. Contributor is the best option so far, I believe, but then again it is quite an active term.

The part about unire and munire was just explaining the Latin etymology of the word.

19:20 Mar 31, 2023 

Obviously I do not understand the text the same way as you do, I do not see where the author refers to a supposed inadequacy in the German language.

I'm not a German native speaker and yet I can think of several ways to say 'participant' without having this nehmen/geben issue: die Mitwirkenden, die Beteiligten, die Mitmachenden, die Teilhabenden...
If the author chooses precisely to coin a word on the basis of teilnehmen, it's most probably for the sake of disruption and translating it in "participant" is undertranslation IMHO.

16:00 Mar 31, 2023 

You keep telling me something I know already.

I *know* what Teilgebende means. The writer is talking about a supposed inadequacy in the German language, namely that Teilnehmer implies taking, not giving. This will be of no interest to English speakers, and should be left out of the translation.

13:50 Mar 31, 2023 

Of course I did read your whole answer, I always do. However it is the same story because the word teilnehmen has the same roots as in French and English: to take part / to partake, prendre part.
Of course in "participant" (both in English and French), the words "take" and "prendre" have disappeared. Yet you could never say that a participant organises something, a participant takes part / partakes in it. That's why I told you that the word 'Teilgebende" conveys something that the word 'participant' does not convey.