>>unrelated effort to survey at least part
of the Egypt Sudan border<<
Actually I figured out that they were looking for
desert locusts which just happen to inhabit the border region.
There are two sites that Jesper pointed us to. The
sign was here http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575&pic=ALL - which was a record of a visit to a confluence 2° of
longitude further east along the Sudan Egypt border. I think he was using
it to show that the border is marked in places. The fao.org site was a
completely different piece of information and looks like photos of an
unrelated effort to survey at least part of the Egypt Sudan border. I
guess that this is all just pieces of a larger jigsaw that may or may not
provide more information as to the exact location of the tripoint but which
are, neverthelss, slightly related and of general interest to those who have a
broader perspective on the world than simply multipoints (thereby, of couse,
risking being the recipient of someone's wrath for posting to the "wrong" list
and getting redirected to borderpoint instead - hehehehe).
Incidentially, while
on the subject of boradening our general knowledge, this site provides a
little bit of information about the definite article in Arabic - http://www.languageguide.org/arabic/grammar/articles.jsp and
the rightmost character on the sign does look a bit like the definite article
(remember Arabic is written from right to
left).
I looked through the slide show on that site, and I haven't
seen a sign yet!
Where is it?
Thanks,
Lowell G.
McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To:
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Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006
3:20 PM
Subject: SV: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@i...>
wrote:
>>
>> A quick googling did not find new material on
EGSD demarcation, but I found
>> this: http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/oldsite/EGYSUD/show4/P1.htm.
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funny
> i did too
> but why do you bring it
in
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>> But doesn't the sign say more than
"Sudan"?
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> yes it says
> the sudan
> with the
definite article
> written in the 2 arabic words
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> as
sudan
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> pronounced ahss sudan
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>> Reversed
markers (where the country name or letters are facing the
>>
neighbouring country) are rare, but are found. LTPL I believe is
fully
>> marked like that. And I have seen one by Vennbahn
(probably by error or mean
>> actions :-) ) and on CHFR (by error
probably).
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> right but here we can read the direction by the
shadows & captions too
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> & many if not most signs
including even some border signs are inscribed only
> on one
side
> as this one could well
be
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