See my insertions below.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Re; Map sites (ATCHFLN)
> fl is for
> furstentum or fuerstentum liechtenstein
> which is liechtenstinian for
> principality of liechtenstein
Thanks. I figured it was something like that, but I thought the ISO
abbreviations were the Boundary Point standard for abbreviating boundaries and
tripoints.
> jesper knows li is also for liechtenstein
> but he is just getting into character with the locality
>
> as they say
> when in liechtenstein do as the liechtenstinians
>
>
> but why are you using usa
>
> i assume you refer to the united states
> but iso 3166 says thats us
When I abbreviate a boundary (such as MXUS or CAUS) I use "US" per the ISO,
however, when abbreviating the name of my country, I abbreviate all of it for
the sake of completeness. It's the same reason that made USSR/CCCP, FRG, GDR,
ROC, and PRC well known as abbreviations for countries with wordy names.
Besides, ours are not the only united states. There are others: Estados Unidos
Mexicanos, for instance.
> also
> as your fellow ussian or usavian or whatever it is we are
> why do you keep attracting all this gratuitous attention to our
> motherland the usa every time you post
I send quite a number of international e-mails every day, only a few in Boundary
Point. I also manage a large e-mail group with members in 22 countries. I
encourage them to let us know where they are when they post. For these reasons,
I have my location (including country) on the "signature" that my e-mail program
attaches. It is not meant to attract gratuitous attention, merely to state the
fact of my location.
> we already know where you are coming from
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > Why are we using "FL"? I assume that you refer to
> Liechtenstein, but the ISO country code list at
> >
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166
> -code-lists/list-en1.html
> > says that Liechtenstein is "LI."
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA