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RE: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pa ce wit

• To: James Cerra <jc2astro@h...>
• Subject: RE: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:05:04 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <F142gcOrBLSAQV6uPDV0001b39c@h...>

James Cerra writes:
> >From Simon St.Laurent:
> >English lets you say damn near anything using any grammar you
> >please, and pretty rough speling as wel.  As wide-open as English
> >is, it ain't so tolerant - most readers ain't tolerant - of Chinese
> >characters (or other non-Latin forms except in parens with a
> >translation) appearing in the middle of English sentences.  Logos
> >and currency signs are occasional exceptions.
> 
> I disagree; there is a class of childrens books that use pictures and
> other symbols interchangably with English.  On the other end of the
> spectrum, mathematics books also contain a lot of rarely-used symbols
> intertwined with the text.

And English is also full of exceptions that prove the rule. 

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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