On Fri, April 17, 2015 9:51 am, Always Learning wrote:
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)
The first thing I learned what US people (before became one myself) take English pronunciation for was... Well, I asked US person at the conference: does he know this person (and gave the name of English person). The answer was:
"that guy with accent"
Isn't it funny to call correct English pronunciation an accent? ;-) (adding "lough track" so who don't feel it's funny still can lough here taking it as a joke ;-)
Valeri
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.
Comments off-list please.
-- Regards,
Paul. England, EU. Je suis Charlie.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++