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RE: Re: maps

• To: 'John Cowan' <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: Re: maps
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:14:17 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

The challenge of idioms is to confront the 
relationship of locale to the habits of interpretation, 
aka, semiosis.

No sign fits all. :-)

len

From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...]

This was actually a booby trap: the style 12.15 (for a time) is perfectly
common in the U.K., maybe even standard.  But it means 15 minutes after 12,
not 12.15 hours after midnight.

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