English (was Re: A few hums)

todd glassey todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net
Thu Jul 24 09:00:26 CEST 2003


What it sounds like we need is an official IETF lexicon. Or possibly at
least a set of agreed upon common terms.

Todd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leif Johansson" <leifj at it.su.se>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com>
Cc: <problem-statement at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: English (was Re: A few hums)


> Randy Bush wrote:
>
> >if we think we can solve the global multi-language/culture problem,
> >why the heck don't we get real and work on world hunger and peace?
> >
> >let's face it, we live in a multi-lingual world, embarrassingly,
> >american has become the lingua franca of our technology.  there
> >are some simple (but hard) things folk can do to make themselves
> >easier to understand, speak slowly and clearly, use no idioms,
> >have clear slides which help folk read along, etc.  i would wager
> >that there is some nice web page on this if we googled correctly.
> >
> >beyond that, yes it's a problem, but we ain't gonna fix it.
> >
> >randy
> >
> >
> Really! Just consider us poor Swedes who are all taught to speak and
> write the
> Queen's English at school. How are we supposed to cope with "American"
> ?!? ;-)
>
> I believe the web-page you were looking for is
>
>     http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6174/brit-queue-51st.htm
>
>     MVH (I bet you don't know what that stands for either :-) ) leifj
>
>
>



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