Dear Len,

I would certainly agree with you on this matter - if

our issues were European ones only!

The problem is that so many non-Europ. countries

don't have proper car registration initials - so we

have to agree on an international standard - that's

why I support the current system...!

Btw: I'm convinced that the near future means

bringing these two standards together - as far

as I know, Sweden intends to change its intern'l

initials to SE...also for cars... pls correct me, dear

Swedish BP-members (well, Mats?)if I'm wrong here...

Peter Hering

-------Original Message-------

From: lnadybal

Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 04:09:48

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Digraphs

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

> To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint]

Moldovan exclave and other comments

>
>
> >From:

Arif

>
> >To add my two-cents on the word pene-exclave. I

> >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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