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.

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