Subject: Re: new cskomk tripoint could be born not just unmarked but undelineated<br/>
Date: Feb 24, 2006 @ 05:32<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1280774579">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;lgm@...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; If/when Montenegro gets a new code, Serbia might <br/>
&gt; want a new one without the C.  <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>not only would she very likely want & undoubtedly get one<br/>
but she probably couldnt keep cs even if she had wanted to<br/>
since iso codes from predecessor states are not supposed to be pinned on their rumps<br/>
but are changed on principle just to avoid any possible confusion or embarrassment<br/>
<br/>
thus for example when the czech republic was divorced by slokavia<br/>
the former had to change her & their married name of cs to a newly single name of cz<br/>
<br/>
a simple & easy enough thing to do in that case<br/>
<br/>
the difficulty however is most acute in serbias case<br/>
since se sr sb si & sa are all taken<br/>
<br/>
so acute in fact that when the latest reduction of yugoslavia aka yu down to serbia & <br/>
montenegro occurred<br/>
& besides the 5 abovementioned unavailables & the sc possibility youve also ruled out<br/>
all the other even vaguely mnemonic choices of sm sn st sg sr & so were also found to be <br/>
already taken<br/>
it was finally decided to hail none other than czechoslovakias retired cs handle back into <br/>
service for this ingeniously restyled even if preposterous crna srpa entity<br/>
<br/>
for at least cs offered a hint of mnemonics <br/>
& it was evidently considered less objectionable for serbia & montenegro to be confused <br/>
for czechoslovakia <br/>
than for czechoslavakia to be confused for the czech republic<br/>
<br/>
& this odd coupling of serbia & montenegro has already lasted far longer than anyone <br/>
imagined it would at the time they reluctantly adopted so lame a code for it or them<br/>
with the consolation that both the state & the code would disappear before causing too <br/>
many problems anyway<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Montenegro can&#39;t have CG, which belongs to the <br/>
&gt; Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville).<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>true but not just not that<br/>
for an independent montenegro would be in nearly as great a pickle as serbia <br/>
as was already anticipated in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/5580">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/5580</a><br/>
where a prospective solution is at least offered<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
also somewhat quaint if not downright poignant in this general connection <br/>
& others <br/>
is<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12380">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12380</a><br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& it is a bit late in the evening to get into all the combinations & permutations of how the <br/>
prospective montenegro tripoints & the remaining new kosovo tripoints might be renamed<br/>
<br/>
but i suppose all in due time<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
mmvi<br/>
cream hill</div>