Re: A modest proposal.

2000-03-26 Thread Cortland Richmond
Lou, What you propose for our professions has long since been adopted for others. For example, the English of maritime shipping, called "Seaspeak," was created in 1982-1983, including not only restricted vocabularies, but also structured ways of speaking appropriate to maritime affairs. Internati

RE: A modest proposal.

2000-03-26 Thread Grant, Tania (Tania)
Lou, Esperanto (the language) had international backing. Where is it now? Who is using it? The trouble with language is that it is a thought process and a cultural thing. Changing a language artificially has not worked in the past;-- I doubt that it would work today or in the future. Th

A modest proposal.

2000-03-26 Thread Lou Gnecco
Group: Having subscribed to this group for over a year now, I am really impressed by how easily we hold technical "bull sessions" with emc engineers from all over the world. This is a fabulous service of the ieee. There is only one problem with it: ya gotta speak english. If an e