SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: International IA Theories ?
RE: SIGIA-L: International IA Theories ?
From: Kirsten Miller (kikiruny_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 10:26:30 EST
I really enjoyed reading your post, Robert, and I
especially appreciated the humoUr in it. And I think
the idea that we can and should learn from other
industries is "spot on."
Slightly off-topic (or maybe not??) I'm curious to
know the cultural identity of the person(s) who told
you that the term "Anglo" has "the whiff of white
supremacist racists" in the U.S. Having lived in the
U.S. for 30 years, and in several different regions of
it, I've never heard this before! Maybe it just goes
to show that, though it's worth it to do everything
you can to speak the language of your target audience,
you can never assume the possibility of a 100%
fool-proof product.
And, swerving back on topic, why shouldn't this apply
to IA as well as to language? ;-)
--Kirsten Miller
--- "VanTol, Robert" <Robert.VanTol_at_plc.cwplc.com>
wrote:
<snip>
> Little did I know that the word Anglo has a
> different meaning in the
> US, where it has the whiff of white supremacist
> racists. Whoops.
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