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Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Sun, 20 May 2012 19:43 UTC

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Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:41:40 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
Subject: Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case
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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:06:25AM -0400,
 Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> >One dreams of a period in which precision and elegance were not
> >mutually exclusive properties.
> 
> You mean when French was the dominant language?

Nice troll. Let me amend it: we now have languages which were
conceived for writing precisely what you mean (not too much ambiguity,
not too little). Lojban <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban> is the
best known. I do not expect IETF to adopt it for RFCs (despite the
imperfections of English) but I regret it. This would give me the push
I need to really learn Lojban.

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