English (was Re: A few hums)

[Randy Bush]

> All speakers to put the substance of what they are saying in words on
> the slides.
> People try to speak a little slower.  (This is hard to remember
> especially when the chair says 1 minute more!)
> A distinction between questions for clarification (asking what is
> being said) versus
> comments on the material.  The former should be taken first,
> preferably immediately.
> Some sort of signal (holding up a paper?  or blue index cards?) might
> be used to signify a question of clarification.

yep.  thanks for helping expand on my over-terseness.

RB>> there are some simple (but hard) things folk can do to make
RB>> themselves easier to understand, speak slowly and clearly, use
RB>> no idioms, have clear slides which help folk read along, etc.

but this issue is not at all unique to the ietf, computing, etc.
so i still wonder if

RB>> i would wager that there is some nice web page on this if we
RB>> googled correctly.

randy