22 May 06 11:31, Vladimir Donskoy wrote to Roy Witt:

 VD> Hi Roy!

 VD> Thursday May 18 2006, Roy Witt wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 VD>>>>> Ohhh, Policy wrote by iliteracy writer - each word need
 VD>>>>> explain...
 VD>>>>> :-)

 RW>>>> English is a tough language to master and those who wrote policy
 RW>>>> new their English very well. Unfortunately.

 VD>>> However it not an occasion so to write that comments almost to each
 VD>>> word are necessary!

 RW>> Only to those not familiar with the intracacies of the language. I
 RW>> and many other native speakers don't have that problem.

 VD> For international document it is not correct: it must have understand
 VD> by _any_ people!

I don't think that was of concern when it was written. Fidonet had barely
spread to Z2.

 VD>>> Look at other legal (law) documents - all clearly, ambiguities is
 VD>>> not present in general, and their translations are quite correct
 VD>>> without any comments.

 RW>> The problem with those are that they're written in terms that the
 RW>> layman has to ask a lawyer to interpret.

 VD> And Policy not include many things for procedures and methods. And
 VD> many things stated "*Cs know best, common sense..."

Of course, but many of them didn't know best and they had no common sense.
Many of them ran their nets and regions like a dictatorship...


Roy
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