{"id":3720,"date":"2022-09-01T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2022-08-06T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:58:51","slug":"speaking-english-or-some-other-private-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/09\/speaking-english-or-some-other-private-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking English or Some Other Private Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If someone asks a question in English, please answer in English. Please avoid some other private language.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent conversations, I asked, &#8220;Your research, how far ahead in time are you working? Your work may become reality in 1, 5, 10 years?&#8221; The answer was, &#8220;TRL 4.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technology_readiness_level\">see this for a translation<\/a>) Deep sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked in English. Please reply in English. Oh, we don&#8217;t talk in those terms. We talk in our own private language that only we understand. If you don&#8217;t understand us, you are not worthy of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps I react too harshly. These are smart, caring people who mean well. They are using a language that is near and dear to them. It is not, however, the language that I used to start the conversation. Sadly, this occurs in many fields of endeavor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not easy to discuss matters that are unique to a field in plain English. Each field has its own vocabulary. Sometimes that is writ of habeas corpus, electrocardiogram, IMSI and TMSI, or domain name service. There are English-language explanations for these. Let&#8217;s try to use them. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips If someone asks a question in English, please answer in English. Please avoid some other private language. In recent conversations, I asked, &#8220;Your research, how far ahead in time are you working? Your work may become reality in 1, 5, 10 years?&#8221; The answer was, &#8220;TRL 4.&#8221; (see this for a translation) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,32,286,412,257,416],"tags":[225,154,287,413,258,417],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-communication","category-conversation","category-language","category-respect","category-vocabulary","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-conversation","tag-language","tag-respect","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}