Re: [mv] HTML editors

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@booktraders.com>]

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message to minivend-users from "Bill Randle" <billr@exgate.tek.com>
>
> Actually, (as a native English speaker), I understood what Stefan meant by
> track. It's actually a fairly common term to refer to a session, or
> more often a group of sessions at a technical conference.
>

Oh, I didn't cross over the way I wanted. You misunderstood my intentions.

I especially responded to that thread, because I (as non native speaker)
would have _never_ imagined that someone wouldn't understand the word
"track" in this context. There may be a lot of other English words
where I would have thought that out of courtesy one could have used
another one* which is more commonly known, but "track" I wouldn't have
put in that category, definitely. So, I was a bit amazed as the poster
who asked Racke for an explanation never occured to me as a person who has
any English comprehension difficulties.

I just like to point out that obviously not much  _can be taken for
granted_  in understanding each other when English is a second language
for many of the list's participants. Racke writes English pretty clearly
IMHO.

Hope that makes it clear. Noone should feel offended, please. I just like 
to drop some future document writers a broad hint.... 8-)

Birgitt
*BTW, I personally like if someone uses words in emails which are commonly
not so much used but hit the point (as long as they don't make
technical explanations a little more obscure). It's fun to look them up if
you want to understand someone. They tend to stick to your mind and it's a
great way to learn English. 


> A typical conference will often have several sessions/presentations going
> on at the same time to accomodate people with different interests. For
> instance, there may be a series Systems Administration sessions, a
> series of Programming sessions, a series of E-Commerce sessions, etc, all
> running in parallel. The collection of sessions in a particular subject
> area are generally refered to as a "track".
>
> [Think of railroad (railway) tracks, running in a straight line parallel
> to each other and you get analogy.]
>
> -Bill
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