Subject: Digraphs
Date: Jan 28, 2002 @ 01:39
Author: lnadybal ("lnadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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> http://parole.aporee.org/work/print.php?words_id=756pene-enclave.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ray Milefsky
> To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:03 PM
> Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Moldovan exclave and other comments
>
>
> Being a novice to this site, I am baffled by terms such as
> Without a clear definition I am afraid I cannot employ it in myprofessional
> life, but I seem to understand what it means. Can any of youafficionados
> give me a clear definition that I can pass around to my fellowsynorologists
> in Legal?letters for
>
> Another thing I find interesting is your use of digraphs (two
> independent states and other political entities. At the StateDepartment
> website (www.state.gov) we use the digraphs established by the USBoard on
> Geographic names, which, granted are a little obscure (LO forSlovenia, EZ
> for the Czech Republic, TC for UAE, BH for Belize) because eitherhistorical
> colonial abbreviations (Trucial states) or we are running out ofdigraphs
> (can't recycle -- CZ is for Czechoslovakia). Where do you guyscome up with
> your digraphs? Perhaps we should use the UN trigraph system?the first
>
> Ray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: m donner [mailto:maxivan82@h...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:30 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Moldovan exclave and other comments
>
>
> >From: Arif
>
> >To add my two-cents on the word pene-exclave. I like
> >using the word, but it doesn't always give a true idea
> >of what geography the place has. We seem to call
> >tongues separated by water, a place which is separated
> >by a point or a mountain and all such things as
> >pene-exclaves. To use the word pene-exclave without a
> >qualifier is kind of odd, IMO.
>
> i agree completely
>
> better yet why dont we find or invent & then use adequate words in
> placehttp://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
> i think we will understand each other better if we do
>
> m
>
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