Re: USA dominion: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

On 7/25/20 12:24 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:

> Paul,
>
> Thanks for the info and the history lesson.
>
> I will learn how to spell “Colleagues” :)
>
Of course "colleague" has it's own problems - it implies that one 
assumes that all of one's addressees have opinions of equal worth.  For 
some, that's an expression of respect.  For others, it's kowtowing to 
Dunning-Kruger syndrome.  And some might take "Dear Colleague" as a 
sarcastic insult.

You really can't win with this stuff.  Someone will always object to 
something.  Personally, I'm still good with old-fashioned knock-down, 
drag-out, technical exchange - the hell with the language & people's 
feelings.  Good engineering is good engineering, bad engineering is bad 
engineering.  All the rest is navel-gazing.

Miles Fidelman

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown