Re: [wg-review] Education & Outreach and Languages
As Italian, born in South America, living in UK, (alledgedly EC, depending on who you ask to :-), working for an American company, I do not doubt to prefer to communicate always in English (even if bad/broken) as a "standard" ligua-franca=language - PROVIDED cultural differences and necessary diversity awareness are still respected in the tecnical contexts... One of the differences that should be respected in an international comunity like this one is that lingua-franca English is a very reduced working set of the full English language, and to this extent, whenever documents are written in "too elegant" English by somebody whose mother tongue is English, the purpose of the lingua-franca is lost.... Like in design, "elegance" of tech documents/communications writing should (imho) be in simplicity, lack of ambiguity and understandability by non mother tongue speakers of English... Just a thought...
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