On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:29:23AM -0700, Scott Francis wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:26:00AM +0800, Adrian Chadd exclaimed:
The internet has a bunch of technical standards which we loosely agree to. There's no law stating "thou shalt speak English if connected via BGP4 to thy internet".
And are _any_ of those technical standards written in a language other than English? Think about the acronyms we use in network-speak every day - how many of them stand for phrases in a language other than English?
Acronyms can be translated too. The termination point for my Bell Canada ADSL service is labelled "ADSL/LNPA", for example. I think what you meant to say was: "the English Acronyms I use when speaking English only make sense in English!" :) Joe