Re: Feature request for V
- From: Chris Wesling <wesling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:36:26 -0700
Timo Pietilä wrote:
Chris Wesling wrote:
That's where I would disagree. I have yet to see *anyone* use the term "modest proposal" without meaning it in the Swiftian sense.
How about around 100% of people that can read and write english, but whose native language it is not? You know, UK and US combined is only about 6% of worlds population, and I bet that not everybody even in those countries don't use that phrase that way. English is slowly becoming "common language" around world, and it is taught as first foreign language almost everywhere in western world.
, so as far as I'm concerned simply using that term is an "indication of ironic intent."
In international groups you have to be careful about using phrases that don't translate directly.
Good point, Timo. You're right, non-native English speakers would probably use that phrase, or interpret someone else's use of it, in a non-ironic way. The person who actually used the phrase in this case IS a native English speaker, so I suppose I made some assumptions as to his intended meaning.
Chris W.
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