Hi, "Martian” is nice expression.
Top level Hungarian physicists working in various aspects of nuclear physics in the early forties in the States were called Martians as they used a funny language amongst themselves, i.e. Hungarian. This group includes John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, Ede Teller and Jeno Wigner... Geza On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Spencer Dawkins <spen...@wonderhamster.org>wrote: > On 3/12/2013 1:45 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > In any event, I've gotten some feedback that some people thought >> I was identifying them as Martians and were offended. No >> offense was intended and I used the "Martian" terminology >> precisely to avoid that possibility. I obviously failed and >> apologize to anyone who didn't hear or understand what I was >> trying to say in the way I intended to say it. I'll try to >> watch my choice of vocabulary even more in the future. >> > > At least some of the nerdier nerds were probably thinking "how could *I* > become a Martian? because that would be so cool!" ... > > But just to your point that this wasn't about native English speakers ... > Doesn't Alfred HÎnes still have the indoor record for accepted RFC > editorial(*) errata in the history of, like, ever? :) > > Spencer > > (*) and non-editorial errata, too, but that's a different story ... >
