Well said. ---------- >From: "Grant, Tania (Tania)" <tgr...@lucent.com> >To: emc-p...@ieee.org, "'Lou Gnecco'" <l...@tempest-inc.com> >Subject: RE: A modest proposal. >Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2000, 4:32 PM >
> > 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. The EMC > community at large has enough peculiar idioms which are understood > world-wide. However, creating something artificially would probably > confuse more people. > > The reason we are using English here is that the IEEE EMC-PSTC (EMC-Product > Safety Technical Committee) was started here in California, in the good old > U.S.A. However, if something like this were started in France or Germany, > you and I would be out of luck!!! We should be thankful that so many > people world-wide share their knowledge with us, even if the English grammar > is not always perfect. As long as I understand the point they are making, > I am very very grateful. > > Danke shoen; Merci; Aciu Jums; Muchas Gracias; Spasibo! > > (And forgive my spelling/pronunciation"!) > > Tania Grant, tgr...@lucent.com <mailto:tgr...@lucent.com> > Lucent Technologies, Communications Applications Group > > > ---------- > From: Lou Gnecco [SMTP:l...@tempest-inc.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 5:15 PM > To: emc-p...@ieee.org > Subject: A modest proposal. > > > 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 engineer can't speak english, he or she is really handicapped > nowadays. Like it or not, it has become the "de facto" world language. > But english is a very hard language to learn. Linguists rank it up > there among the most difficult in the world. Our spelling is really screwy, > for one thing. > I hate to see some of our overseas clients - smart people and good > engineers - having to struggle with the inconsistencies of the language. > Many of our own college graduates have problems with grammar and spelling. > As a communications engineer, i can tell you that this is not a good > situation. > > I think we ought to simplify it. If we can virtually eliminate the > word "he" and erase the suffix "-man" due to political correctness, we > certainly can substitute "thru" for "through" and "enof" for "enough" and > make a few simple changes like that. > > Maybe there ought to be a new European Standard: a simplified > version of English for international use. Sort of a "CE-Mark" version of > English to make life a bit it easier for the rest of the world, and to > encourage more smart people to participate in valuable forums like this one. > > Comments welcomed. > > Regards, > > LOUIS T. GNECCO M.S.E.E., PRESIDENT > TEMPEST INC. 112 ELDEN ST. HERNDON VIRGINIA 20170 > (703)"TEMPEST" (836-7378) > CERTIFIED ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY ENGINEER CERT. # EMC-000544-NE > CERTIFIED ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE CONTROL ENGINEER: CERT.# ESD-00143-NE > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com > Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org > > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com > Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org > > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org
