>I guess it doesn't bother me much since I'm used to talking about
"imaginary"
>and "irrational" numbers, too. (My thirteen-year-old refuses to believe
that
>imaginary numbers are "real." *sigh*)
In a recent email to someone giving a long explanation to how multilingual
technologies work and why legacy software doesn't work, I decided to add a
by-line in my signature text describing our department, Non-Roman Script
Initiative: "Solving real problems in imaginary time". I'm not sure what it
means, but it sounded interesting.
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
Tel: +1 972 708 7485
E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
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