Re: [seul-edu] international english?

[Michael Hall <admin@openlearningcommunity.org>]

Paolo:

`vet' vuol dire `controllare' o `esaminare', in inglese `check'

Michael

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Paolo Pumilia wrote:

> >From David M. Bucknell, Mon Nov 26, at 23:05:
>  .I hope we'll find a way to form an international "collaborative" or a 
>  ."coalition for free and open source in education" that can be the work-base 
>  .for each of these cases; after all, coders can, in many cases where the same 
>  .licenses are used, "capitalize" on each other's code, sort of making use of 
>  .the available best of the gene pool. Why can't those of use working to promote 
>  .free and open source tools and content capitalize on each other's efforts? 
>  .Let's create a sort of commercial/product-neutral "brand" that goes on each of 
>  .our sites as volunteer members of this education-promoting collaborative or 
>  .coalition (lately that word seems over-used, although appropriate for us ;-)). 
>  .Participants would be defacto members of the "committee" that vets promotional 
>  .material that could be used by anyone or any group wishing to promote free and 
>  .open source tools and content.
>  .
> 
> 
> Please, what is ''vet''? Something like 'old', i guess...
> 
> This is only the incidental starting point for the following considerations.
> Nothing directed to you David, rather to all the native english speaking people 
> 
> To make our list a little bit more international i'd suggest to make an effort
> to keep english as plain as possible.
> Also chosing words of latin etymology, sometimes could be of help.
> 
> 
> thank you
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