On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person said by scissoring his phrases ;-)
English people (excludes USA people) should always try to speak simple, jargon-free, easily understandable and logically expressed English especially when conversing with non-English people.
I greatly admire the linguistic abilities of non-English people but deplore the dumbed-down abuses of my native language from the US of A.
A military plan has become a "road map" even when aircraft are involved provoking the inevitable question of "Do aircraft stop at traffic lights" !
"Back-up" has become either reverse, a saved copy, re-enforcements etc. Precision in language expression is essential for good understanding.
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