RE: [sv-ac] survey

I'm old, speak English and German, and have never heard most of most of
these Latin phrases.  More importantly, SV is meant to be an international
standard.  Despite the many weaknesses of the English langauge, the standard
should avoid non-English phrases, colloquialisms, and idioms.  Personally, I
think even "i.e." and "e.g." should be spelled out in simple English, but
the IEEE does allow those.

That said, it has been enlightening to see these new phrases in this e-mail
thread.  I hope my feeble old brain can remember them long enough to spring
on my wife over a casual dinner conversation :)

Stu
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Stuart Sutherland
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-ac@server.eda.org 
> [mailto:owner-sv-ac@server.eda.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bromley
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 7:48 AM
> To: Seligman, Erik; john.havlicek@freescale.com; 
> sv-ac@server.eda-stds.org
> Cc: Bresticker, Shalom
> Subject: RE: [sv-ac] survey
> 
> 
> > I also think you should rephrase.  I'm another native English 
> > speaker who hasn't heard [mutatis muntandis].
> 
> I have no idea how old any of you folk are, but I 
> strongly suspect this is a generation-gap thing.
> Just for the record:  The requirement for Oxford 
> science undergraduates to have a qualification in 
> Latin was lifted only one year before I started my
> physics degree...  and now I am learning, slowly and
> painfully, that I must avoid using Latin words and
> abbreviations in anything for public consumption.
> 
> Sic transit gloria mundi :-)
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