oops & good
i didnt mean to be gratuitously critical
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Hugh Wallis" <hugh@o...> wrote:
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> >>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.
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> From: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Hugh Wallis
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:56 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
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> There are two sites that Jesper pointed us to. The sign was here
> http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575
> <http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575&pic=ALL> &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).
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> 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).
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> From: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Lowell G. McManus
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 6:43 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
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>
> 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
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> 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:
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> >> 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.
> >
> > funny
> > i did too
> > but why do you bring it in
> >
> >> But doesn't the sign say more than "Sudan"?
> >
> > yes it says
> > the sudan
> > with the definite article
> > written in the 2 arabic words
> >
> > as sudan
> >
> > pronounced ahss sudan
> >
> >> 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).
> >
> > right but here we can read the direction by the shadows & captions too
> >
> > & 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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