Subject: Re: tripoints versus triple points<br/>
Date: May 22, 2002 @ 23:44<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1801175038">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Peter Hering&quot; <br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; by Stephen B. Jones in 1945 <br/>
&gt; The word &quot;tripoint&quot; isn&#39;t mentioned at all, instead the<br/>
&gt; terms &quot;triple points&quot; and &quot;trijunction points&quot; are used..<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; SO, my question to those of you having English/American<br/>
&gt; as first language...!<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Is &quot;tripoint&quot; a modern word... born in the US or GB??<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>hi peter<br/>
the word tripoint strikes me as a fairly spontaneous & universal<br/>
modernism & an outgrowth of natural language neither exclusively gb<br/>
nor us <br/>
nor any other breed of english so far as i can tell<br/>
<br/>
in the usa we have long referred to tristate & tricounty points or<br/>
regions etc <br/>
but the word tripoint in general & especially when referring to<br/>
tricountry points just hasnt been in the vernacular here & seems<br/>
almost to have waited for bp to even be seriously noticed<br/>
if indeed it has been seriously noticed even yet <br/>
<br/>
i also have the impression from my reading that it is only since about<br/>
the 1970s or 1980s that the word tripoint or any of its cousins in<br/>
other modern languages has gotten much serious usage anywhere<br/>
<br/>
this is mainly because not much special attention had been given to<br/>
the thing itself until that time<br/>
so whenever one considered or mentioned this thing one practically had<br/>
to name it oneself for the occasion<br/>
hence all the various terms<br/>
<br/>
yet tripoint has since that time generally outdistanced & displaced<br/>
all the alternative terms for the thing<br/>
<br/>
earlier the word tripoint may have seemed too glib or casual to apply<br/>
to such a technical & multiply serious & important thing<br/>
<br/>
but once this easy & now familiar term was allowed & became respected<br/>
then all the alternatives have seemed increasingly ponderous & strange<br/>
<br/>
in fact we are probably the first who have seriously fixated on<br/>
tripoints sufficiently to notice & mention that they usually go<br/>
unnoticed & unmentioned  <br/>
<br/>
& those of you who have tried browsing on any of these various terms<br/>
well know how relatively rare they all are<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; PS: Jesper, Hans Peter (another Danish border freak)<br/>
&gt; and I just returned from our mini expedition to the<br/>
&gt; DeDk border... a very nice trip that brought us to all<br/>
&gt; 16 crossing points (railway and road) and some other<br/>
&gt; interesting places <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>did you find any 19th century dedk ghost stones<br/>
or did i just get faked out onto the wrong border<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;the GEEBE that takes quite a lot of my time...<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>a great job & responsibility<br/>
& we certainly do appreciate all your efforts on behalf of geebe &<br/>
tripoints & try pointing in general<br/>
<br/>
m</div>