Re: The result of the Plane 14 tag characters review

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 17:23:59 EST

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    On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:37:36PM -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
    > These is completely comparable to the fact that my local
    > English-language newspaper doesn't need a German language tag
    > to write Gerhard Schroeder.

    But a German newspaper of the 1930s might have needed an English
    language tag to write Kenneth Whistler, and certainly would have need
    one to quote someone in English or French. 

    -- 
David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
Einstein once said that it would be hard to teach in a co-ed college since
guys were only looking on girls and not listening to the teacher. He was
objected that they would be listening to _him_ very attentively, forgetting
about any girls. But such guys won't be worth teaching, replied the great
man.

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