Tony and Fernando,
Of course you are both eminently right. And I am sufficiently
culturally aware to recognise this. I have also travelled extensively
in Latin America (where I met only courtesy, gentle laughter and
kindness as the response to my rather pathertic Spanish).
But it still
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Subject: R: Latin motto
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:42:23 +0100
This is a possible translation:
Like life no day without a line
( with the double meaning of wrinkle on
So far as I know the sun compass was in use in North Africa only. The
compass was very specific, it was equipped with the plate engraved with the
so called Weir Diagram which consists of concentric ellipses. The diagram's
main purpose is determination of azimuth with few simple actions. Accuracy
As far as I understood the main reason for using sun compasses in the
Sahara was that a magnetic compass would be rather unreliable on those
moving masses of steel called tanks during WW2.
At 08:04 24-3-99 +1000, you wrote:
-Original Message/Oorspronkelijk bericht--
Folks,
John Pickard contributed:
The most difficult thing with my teaching is persuading graduate
students from non-western cultures to say I don't understand that,
can you explain it again please? Seems to be a loss of face. But it
sure hinders their education.
This can be a two-way problem. In
