Re: Colloquial language
mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Fri, 01 June 2012 10:46 UTC
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Subject: Re: Colloquial language
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To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:46:18 +0200
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Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > > So the way we introduce some people to the IETF is to expect that they > will look up fifty unfamiliar words and phrases? Having taught English > as a second language, I can attest that some of the idioms and > colloquialisms included in this document would have caused puzzlement in > my students. How about an appendix for draft-hoffman-tao4677bis describing the terms you find exceedingly colloquial? (to support offline consumption of the document)? -Martin
- Re: Colloquial language [Re: Last Call: <draft-ho… Noel Chiappa
- Re: Colloquial language Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: Colloquial language Ole Jacobsen
- Re: Colloquial language Martin Rex