Stephen Farrell wrote: > > I'm with Brian and Yoav on this. I don't see a need > to change here. And I do think we might lose something > if we become too PC. If a bunch of non-native speakers > did say "yes, I found that made the document less > useful" then I'd be more convinced that all these > changes were worth it.
+1 I do not believe that *over*simplyfying the language is beneficial for a clearly non-technical document. Using a language that is similar to discussion on mailing lists should be perfectly OK, as long as the colloquial expressions can still be googled easily, for those not familiar with them. I have to google Dilberts and xkcd every once in a while, an those sometimes contain very "local" expressions that are really difficult to find -- and still I'm OK with this. -Martin
