---- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Niven-Jenkins" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Ole Jacobsen" <ole@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:36 PM On 31 May 2012, at 09:16, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > Sounds like a difficult thing to do with any kind of predictable or > measurable outcome, although it might be fun to ask the Brits if they > understand everything the Americans are saying and vice versa :-) I don't really have any issues understanding American English but I'm regularly gobsmacked by how many North Americans struggle to understand some things that I say :-) <tp> It's called irony; it got left behind on the beach, when the Pilgrim Fathers crossed the pond. On the other hand, it could just be that what you say <>is<> cricket. Which would also be perfectly comprehensible to the Indian audience, alluded to earlier (and to the remainder of the English speaking world:-) Tom Petch </tp> Ben