Subject: be2 or not be2 is the question<br/>
Date: Sep 28, 2003 @ 22:05<br/>
Author: Michael Donner (&quot;Michael Donner&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1954936095">or more explicitly<br/>
do the 3 belgian phonic or ethnic regions<br/>
or whatever they really are<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be(">http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be(</a>r.html<br/>
actually trump or merely coexist with the 10 belgian provinces<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be(">http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be(</a>.html#map<br/>
as the primary working subdivisions of the country<br/>
<br/>
or yikes do they all somehow combine<br/>
to form a total of 13 equally primary subdivisions of mixed classes<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
because<br/>
if on the one hand we are looking only at the 3 super entities<br/>
then there are evidently no major internal tripoints in belgium<br/>
<br/>
but if on the other hand we are looking only at the 10 provinces<br/>
then it seems there are the following 10 tripoints<br/>
anlivb<br/>
anovvb<br/>
bwhtna<br/>
bwhtvb<br/>
bwlina<br/>
bwlivb<br/>
lglxna<br/>
lilgvb<br/>
htovvb<br/>
htovwv<br/>
<br/>
& finally if we are looking at both hands simultaneously<br/>
or all 13 regions & provinces combined<br/>
well i wont even think of what a mess that would be<br/>
unless it actually proves to be necessary<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& the clavology of belgium seems to include<br/>
besides obviously baarle on the international level<br/>
internal clavities involving all 3 regions<br/>
& which also figure in at least 2 instances of interprovincial clavities<br/>
<br/>
& these observations are even without considering the germanophone areas in <br/>
the first map<br/>
which dont appear to fit very neatly into either scheme<br/>
yet are themselves also discontiguous<br/>
hahaha<br/>
<br/>
so anyway<br/>
how to tie down all this clavology is another question<br/>
which tho not pressing now because inapplicable to the internal tripoint <br/>
census<br/>
will however ultimately figure in the inventory of the binational tripoints <br/>
of belgium & its neighbors<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
just as was the case btw with those bosnian claves<br/>
<br/>
& perhaps with those of many other countries too<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so it may be well to bear in mind that such details are not without <br/>
punctological significance<br/>
even if they are of only secondary interest at the moment<br/>
<br/>
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