On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > We live in an international world (otherwise we wouldn't need that > annoying unicode stuff). When you say, "effort to be understandable", > what you're really saying is, "everybody should be just like me". > > Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. Or maybe fortunately, since > variety and exploring different cultures is part of what makes life > interesting.
That said, though, there are a few phrases that we all learn to avoid. I'm used to talking about "knocking up" a rough prototype, but when I started communicating internationally more, I consciously started saying "knocking together" instead, to avoid confusing certain groups of people... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
