Markus Scherer scripsit: > Nice story, similar to the one with Gary Miller. It seems like we have three stories >of origin now (with mid-'80s DEC). > The i18n.com version does not date the MIT meeting, does it?
Well, independent or stimulus-diffused reinvention isn't ludicrous; in fact, I can testify that it actually happened. At one point, before I had firmly learned the acronym "i18n", I found myself remembering that there was an acronym of that style and having to count the letters myself, and at least once "l14n" instead of "l10n" got into a posting of mine, perhaps influenced by c14n = "canonicalization", for which the oldest Google Groups entry is only 1999. Did I invent "c14n" independently, or by stimulus diffusion, or by seeing it and forgetting it? I just can't say. -- Only do what only you can do. John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --Edsger W. Dijkstra, http://www.reutershealth.com deceased 6 August 2002 http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
