On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 16:19, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
People often in email list use terms, while possible known, often have a > very different meanings outside of the US. A large number of US corporate, > sporting or gambling idioms, would be lost on most people outside the US > I was hoping to include things like this under "dialect". it's not just regional idioms, terms, etc. but cultural ones too. words like "grok", "bikeshedding", "strawman", etc, can all signal in-group status