> > Ayup.  Remember, Wouter learned "English" not "American"!
> 
> I suggest that after the PIClist has agreed on
> - the proper interpretation of EE
> - the best language for programming PICs
> - the best PIC for a beginner
> - the best PIC programmer
> - and of course the way the PIClist should be run
> - and I almost forgot: what should be on a PIC experimenters PCB
> 
> that you English speakers agree on the meaning of each and every word?
> and the pronounciation! and while you are busy, also on the proper units
> for distance, volume etc? Maybe that will be just in time before
> han-chinse takes over the internet :) What do the Chinese use to as
> basic units anyway? The length and weight of a rice grain?

Too funny!  Although it does bring up a good point: the words we use
are how we communicate to one another.  Too often, imprecision of
terminology becomes acceptable use, which leads to unrecognized 
miscommunications, which leads to misdeeds, wasted time and
negative emotions.

For my part, I view the language spoken across the pond (and in other,
more recently settled ex-colony states of that land) as a foreign
language that just happens to sound, look, and read somewhat
similarly to my own.  But that's just me.

I had a long-ish discussion the other day with a (non-engineer) coworker
about the difference between a "flow chart" and a "block diagram".  It
wasn't settled until a (non-native English speaking) coworker came along
and took my side.

Mike H.

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