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