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 On 8/6/02 11:26 AM, "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...> wrote: > Bob Hutchison scripsit: > >> Yes, I understand that you are saying the text values are idiomatic. I'm >> just pointing out that 75°15'00" N isn't the idiom, 75°15'00" N 43°05'00" W >> is (maybe). So saying <lat>75°15'00" N</lat> is no more idiomatic than >> <lat>75.25</lat>. > > Nonsense. If your idiom for time is 2:45 PM, then the idiom isn't 2.45 PM, > but it's still better than 14.75 (hours after midnight). Claims of the > form "Because B isn't exactly A, it's no better than Z" are facially bogus. "facially bogus" means "bogus in a facile way"? Is that what you meant? Wow. But why did you say that? Unless you believe that "almost idiomatic" is always and obviously better than "not idiomatic"? And thinking otherwise is facile and bogus. Hmmm, user is told "no problem, you get to write things the way you always have, only remember not to use ':' but '.'. Oh, and over here, where you want to write a co-ordinate, remember to write it this way... it'll be easy to remember because it is so similar to what you do now. Oh and over here..." I don't know if I'd be quite so quick to insist that something that is familiar but not normal (idiomatic) is necessarily better than something less familiar solely on the basis of its familiarity. 
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