On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:06:25AM -0400, Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 12 lines which said: > >One dreams of a period in which precision and elegance were not > >mutually exclusive properties. > > You mean when French was the dominant language? Nice troll. Let me amend it: we now have languages which were conceived for writing precisely what you mean (not too much ambiguity, not too little). Lojban <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban> is the best known. I do not expect IETF to adopt it for RFCs (despite the imperfections of English) but I regret it. This would give me the push I need to really learn Lojban.