Re: Colloquial language
jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Thu, 31 May 2012 15:54 UTC
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> From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> > It's bad enough that many IETFers speak in a highly colloquial fashion > at our meetings. ... Showing up at your first IETF meeting is quite > enough of "taking the plunge" [1] for most people. If it's meeting attendees one is worried about, I'd have thought that having common colloquialisms in the document would be a feature, not a bug - people would meet them while facing a computer upon which they could look them up at their leisure, not in a live (and likely fast-moving) conversation. Having said that, I think both sides have decent points, and personally don't have any strong preference. Noel
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