Why don't we use the internationally recognized automobile
registration initials. They've been in place for decades. Many
postal services around the world use them, and they are often, in
Europe especially, the prefixes for postcodes on outgoing
international mail. I.e.,
D = Germany
CH = Switzerland
GB = Great Britain
GBJ = Jersey
GBG = Guernsey
GBZ = Gibraltar
RSA = South Africa
I = Italy
RSM = San Marino
YU = Yugoslavia
SLO = Slovenia
Guess these:
BZH
DZ
.... there's hardly a country without a code, and these codes are all
related to geography - for people driving around and mail routing.
Even when countries go out of existence, you can still use their
codes:
DDR = East Germany
SU = Soviet Union
We have a tendency to reinvent wheels for every profession, and it
isn't necessary.
Len Nadybal
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen" <jesniel@i...>
wrote:
> http://parole.aporee.org/work/print.php?words_id=756
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ray Milefsky
> To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:03 PM
> Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Moldovan exclave and other comments
>
>
> Being a novice to this site, I am baffled by terms such as
pene-enclave.
> Without a clear definition I am afraid I cannot employ it in my
professional
> life, but I seem to understand what it means. Can any of you
afficionados
> give me a clear definition that I can pass around to my fellow
synorologists
> in Legal?
>
> Another thing I find interesting is your use of digraphs (two
letters for
> independent states and other political entities. At the State
Department
> website (www.state.gov) we use the digraphs established by the US
Board on
> Geographic names, which, granted are a little obscure (LO for
Slovenia, EZ
> for the Czech Republic, TC for UAE, BH for Belize) because either
historical
> colonial abbreviations (Trucial states) or we are running out of
digraphs
> (can't recycle -- CZ is for Czechoslovakia). Where do you guys
come up with
> your digraphs? Perhaps we should use the UN trigraph system?
>
> Ray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: m donner [mailto:maxivan82@h...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:30 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Moldovan exclave and other comments
>
>
> >From: Arif
>
> >To add my two-cents on the word pene-exclave. I like
> >using the word, but it doesn't always give a true idea
> >of what geography the place has. We seem to call
> >tongues separated by water, a place which is separated
> >by a point or a mountain and all such things as
> >pene-exclaves. To use the word pene-exclave without a
> >qualifier is kind of odd, IMO.
>
> i agree completely
>
> better yet why dont we find or invent & then use adequate words in
the first
> place
>
> i think we will understand each other better if we do
>
> m
>
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