Re: Call for comments from IG: STEM survey first draft

> On 20 Jan 2015, at 16:11 , Peter Krautzberger <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org> wrote:
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> Well, at least there's Cobaye? In German, we speak of "Versuchskaninchen" ("experiment-bunny").

Interesting: Hungarians refer to bunnies, too:-)

ivan

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> Peter.
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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org> wrote:
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> On 20/01/2015 15:04, Ivan Herman wrote:
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> On 20 Jan 2015, at 14:59 , Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org> wrote:
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> On 20/01/2015 14:19, Peter Krautzberger wrote:
> I am not sure I understand who are the pigs.
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> We (the TF) had decided to do a test run with a small number of test
> subjects; this found approval on a regular IG call later.
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> The goal will be to reduce our inevitable blind spots before releasing
> it to the wider group of people. The data from these test subjects would
> not enter the survey (though they would be able to take part in the
> final survey as well).
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> Yes I  am aware of that resolution, I couldn't (and don't) understand why they are called pigs.
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> Thierry,
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> "guinea pig" is an English expression. It is a name of an animal:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pig
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> in contrast google translate, it is 'cochon d'inde' in Frence. And it is also used as an expression for "cobaye".
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> sorry but I was not aware of this english meaning and in France you would not want to be called a pig nor a guinea pig ;-)
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> in French Guinea pig is 'cochon d'inde', which actually means pigs of America, because when Christopher Columbus discovered America he thought it was India.
> So some animals like turkey (dinde, cochon d'inde, dindon) and indians carry that indian spell.
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> Thierry
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> Ivan
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