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RE: Two official work languages is smarter (was Re: IETF working language

2014-03-10 02:20:45
When living in France, I first thought the word for computer was 'putain',
because that's what everyone yelled whenever a problem occurred.

Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood
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From: ietf [ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Michael Richardson 
[mcr+ietf(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca]
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Subject: Re: Two official work languages is smarter (was Re: IETF working 
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    > another. Superhuman speed ('the ekr') is a third.

The EKR problem is not speed, but rather buffer overrun followed by
repeated re-transmissions using some kind multipath tcp.

I find mumbling/lack of articulation among all speakers (both foreign and
native) to be a bigger challenge to understanding.

While I do computer work regularly in french and with francophones,
I've discovered that few native quebecois know what a clavier is.
"le keyboard" is what is used regularly.  Aside from a few nice phrases whose
nuance is lost ("j'ai d'autra chats a fouetter"), there is little to gain
From being multilingual, and much to lose.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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