Re: Proposal to add dateExpires to JobPosting

On 26 October 2012 07:57, Nicholas Shanks <nickshanks@nickshanks.com> wrote:
> On 24 October 2012 08:53, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
>
>> The upcoming GoodRelations integration will provide generically usable validFrom and validThrough properties...
>
> "validThrough" is a horrible name, it grammatically grates on the ear
> and sounds much too american for professional use. Please consider a
> phrase such as validUntil instead.

Can we avoid ethnic/nationalistic slurs on this mailing list please. I
have it on good authority that many Americans are quite professional
these days.

More seriously: native English speakers have a *massive* privilege
handed to them by history, regardless of which flavour of English we
speak. And it was not always a pretty history that gave us this
advantage. Please let's not argue between US and UK or any other
variant. In general we should try for as neutral and simple u usage of
English as possible, but "too American for professional use" is not an
appropriate argument when we are inviting the entire planet to use
this vocabulary.

cheers,

Dan

Received on Friday, 26 October 2012 15:21:37 UTC