;Lou Gnecco'
> Subject: Re: A modest proposal.
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> Well said.
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> >From: "Grant, Tania (Tania)"
> >To: emc-p...@ieee.org, "'Lou Gnecco'"
> >Subject: RE: A modest proposal.
> >Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2000, 4:
ul J Smith
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Cortland Richmond <72146@compuserve.com> on 03/27/2000 02:07:19 AM
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Hi All!
I really appreciate Lou's intention to make this forum more understandable
to technicians whose mother tongue is not English. I belong to such a group
(being an Italian).
Indeed at times I have some problems in understanding some sentences and
this is when the language becomes too colloq
More on BASIC English, etc:
_The Oxford Companion to the English Language_ (ISBN 0-19-214123-X) has
entries about BASIC English, Airspeak (ICAO English), Seaspeak and
restricted vocabulary English. Things in modern usage we old f*rts might
object to are hardly addressed by these abbreviated Engli
Well said.
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>From: "Grant, Tania (Tania)"
>To: emc-p...@ieee.org, "'Lou Gnecco'"
>Subject: RE: A modest proposal.
>Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2000, 4:32 PM
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>
> Lou,
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> Esperanto (the language) had international backing. Where is
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
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
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