Re: British or American spelling in IETF docs

Lojban and esperanto are a bit artificial. The EU approach with 
simplified English is more promising. But if we want to really trust a 
bureaucracy to simplify language, we already have a well established 
model with Orwell' newspeak.

-- Christian Huitema

On 8/9/2026 9:27 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
> Even better: Lojban, a constructed language based on predicate logic that comes with a formal grammar (in BNF).
>
> On 8/9/26 9:10 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
>> Sure, Corinne.  I suppose that makes a case for Esperanto on the
>> grounds that it would probably discriminate equally against
>> almost everyone in this community, is no one's first language,
>> and is relatively easy to learn.  We could, of course, set
>> considerations about a better Internet aside while people who
>> wanted to contribute to the IETF learned it and should not worry
>> about anyone who, rather than learn it, dropped out.  And, of
>> course, anyone who thought reading and understanding RFCs (and
>> any other IETF work) would need to learn it too... and would
>> immediately do that rather than moving on.
>>
>> Did you have a better plan in mind?
>>
>>     john
>>
>>
>> --On Sunday, 09 August, 2026 09:23 +0200 Corinne Cath
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Would or would this not be the right moment to bring up the
>>> imperialism of having to do RFCs in English to begin with? —
>>> and now back to your regular Sunday programming :p
>>>
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