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Julian> Julian Reschke <URL:mailto:reschke@m...> 0> In article 0> <NCBBIPMOPKLLGKJPBINCMELEDHAA.reschke@m...>, 0> Julian wrote: Julian> ... I'd say that the different national languages *do* form Julian> a kind of namespace. It shouldn't be too hard to find an Julian> example where a word "x" has the same spelling but completely Julian> different meanings in for instance German and English... Like "hat", perhaps? (An example off the top of my head...) English and American is a particularly problematic pair, as often the words are the same part of speech: a "gas-powered" vehicle is much more unusual on one side than the other. In neither country would I start an argument with someone who is "[expletive deleted]", though for different reasons. -- xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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