It was my impression that "broken borders" referred to those with broken or
plowed ground--as was common on many iron-curtain frontiers as a means of
detecting unauthorized crossing.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: KZRU
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
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> http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5314235&s
> tartrow=1&date=2005-01-17&do_alert=0
>> "There has been much talk about the issue, but we are
> discussing delimitation, not demarcation. There will be no
> broken borders, while the border crossing arrangements will be
> preserved for Russian and Kazakh citizens," said Mr
> Nazarbayev."
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>> What is broken borders?
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> given the awkwardness of the overall rendering into english
> it is my guess that the translator may have goofed slightly here
> & should have said unsettled or unfixed rather than broken
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> like maybe in russian the ideas of unfixed & not fixed & therefore
> broken are rather more synonymous than in english
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>> Jesper
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Jesper Nielsen
>> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 7:44 PM
>> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] KZRU
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>> Strange how the Kazahs (and perhaps the Russians)
> associate demarction borders with ploughing.
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> this still puzzles me too
> but again maybe it is just a blown idiom
> like say for a fallow margin or a clearcut strip
> or something like that
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> http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Kaz&pg=0&id=5784471&req=
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>> Is this really an open border?
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> i cant reach this link any more
> but why & how do you suppose it might not be open
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