Re: Translations and addresses

Subject: Re: Translations and addresses
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:01:12 -0800

Tony Chung wrote:
> Richard Combs croaked:
>
>
>> Boudreaux, Madelyn wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> Richard Combs made fun of me with:
>>>
>>>> Translate the name for France into French: "France"
>>>> No, wait! Leave it in English: "France"
>>>>
>>> Heh.
>>>
>> I wasn't making fun of you, I was making fun of _France_. I guess I'm
>> feeling a bit froggy (heh). There was no Friday humor (or anything else)
>> on Techwr-l last Friday, so ...
>>
>
> Then Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com> followed up with:
>
>> You might find Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses helpful:
>>
>> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html
>>
>
>
> Does anyone else see the humour in a discussion of France addressing
> schemes leading to a Kermit project folder run by a guy named Frank?
>
>
>

Someone's gotta lotta Gaul.


BTW, I live under the cloud of the failed promise of zipcode. Why do I
have to write mail addresses to explicitly include city and state?
Zipcode encodes that information and is unambiguous, n'est pas? Jusqu'a la!

Ned Bedinger

doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
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Follow-Ups:

References:
Translations and addresses: From: Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)
RE: Translations and addresses: From: Andrew Warren
Re: Translations and addresses: From: Tony Chung

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