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Re: Colloquial language [Re: Last Call: <draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt> (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]

Thomas Nadeau <tnadeau@lucidvision.com> Fri, 01 June 2012 11:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: Colloquial language [Re: Last Call: <draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt> (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]
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On May 31, 2012:6:36 PM, at 6:36 PM, Ben Niven-Jenkins wrote:

> 
> On 31 May 2012, at 09:16, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
>> Sounds like a difficult thing to do with any kind of predictable or 
>> measurable outcome, although it might be fun to ask the Brits if they
>> understand everything the Americans are saying and vice versa :-)
> 
> I don't really have any issues understanding American English but I'm regularly gobsmacked by how many North Americans struggle to understand some things that I say :-)

	I can personally attest to that. *)

	--Tom

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