Subject: Re: Strange section chit border
Date: Mar 06, 2004 @ 13:33
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079"<barbaria_longa@h...>
> wrote, in reaction to Len's question "All international bordersare
> "manmade", aren't they?",Because
>
> > "why do you ask"
>
> Assuming that the inquiry wasn't academic, here's why:
> Michael wrote that a prior message led to this question in hismind:
> "...which manmade segments are NOT straight?". Len in turnasked his
> question in order to elicit whether members exist who believethere
> could be something beside man that could work and makeborders.
>rephrase
> > did anybody say or even imply they werent
>
> Yep. Definitely. You can easily spot the implication if you
> the question and leave "manmade" out of it, and then parse thethe
> differences between the two. With the modifier "manmade",
> question encompasses only a portion of the universe of bordercreators.
>question
> If there are other such creatures "out there", the posed
> doesn't contemplate considering any curvy borders "they"might have
> made. But, hey, as long as we're exploring the manmadeones...
>
> LN