>Granted, that does not mean use obscure words that are >not generally in use. But there does need to be some level >of assumption about the intelligence of the members.
You'll surely gonna explain to me what intelligence has to do with the knowledge of a foreign language? Remember, there many people on this list for whom English is not the native language. In (probably) every language there are fine nuances in the meaning of words depending on context. A techical vocabulary is not the same thing as non day-to-day words. Native speakers do use the latter to express some fine nuance of what they are talking about. Google doesn't help much with this. IMHO, it is the duty of any and all speaker or writer to adjust the level used to the tagtet audience. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
