Subject: Re: Classes<br/>
Date: Aug 14, 2003 @ 18:21<br/>
Author: Michael Donner (&quot;Michael Donner&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1744121561">hi jan<br/>
gladly<br/>
message 8244 may be too condensed of an answer<br/>
while 4734 & 4652 may be more than you really wanted to know<br/>
<br/>
also<br/>
about using the latin words trifinium quadrifinium etc in this specific <br/>
sense<br/>
altho roman property boundaries were usually precisely linear & their <br/>
multipoints exactly determinate<br/>
roman political frontiers were typically imprecise & indefinite<br/>
& even when walled they were more like no mans lands or neutral zones than <br/>
actual modern borders<br/>
<br/>
& you could of course multiply such inexactitude in the case of the roman <br/>
political multipoints<br/>
or really multiareas<br/>
<br/>
so to put a latin air or emphasis on your tripoint may actually diffuse it <br/>
somewhat<br/>
say into a greater triple frontier zone or a vaguely tricountry region<br/>
rather than to sharpen it into the punctilious exactitude that the class <br/>
designations promote<br/>
<br/>
& while i would reserve the finium words for only the most lighthearted & <br/>
lightheaded of occasions anyway<br/>
they strike me as particularly droll in company with the precision tooling <br/>
of the class ideas<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
also thanx again & please continue bearing with me on the baltic watercourse <br/>
borders & the ongoing search for treaty texts<br/>
<br/>
it doesnt matter who is right but only what is the best available truth<br/>
<br/>
indeed if i had to choose i would much rather be sure than merely right or <br/>
wrong<br/>
<br/>
regards<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;From: &quot;Jan S. Krogh&quot; &lt;jan.krogh@...&gt;<br/>
&gt;To: &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: Classes<br/>
&gt;Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:28:16 +0300<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Mike,<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Can you please recall the trifinium classes (a-e) for me, please?<br/>
&gt;Thank you!<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Jan<br/>
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