On 12/31/13, 5:29 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > On Dec 31, 2013, at 4:12 AM, t.p. <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is it Quebecois, Canadian, American, IETFian... ? I do not know >> and cannot imagine it conveying anything to someone who is new to >> the IETF and is not a native English speaker! > > It's jargon. "More heat than light" is not jargon, it is not domain specific or confined in usage to the ietf, it is in fact an idiom that has been in use for centuries. That doesn't mean it's clear in this case or contextually appropiate, or couldn't be said better. We not longer in general illiuminate with fire so the context in which it would be used to describe human behavior is not close at hand.
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