Got a great chuckle out of that! Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 06:15 Subject: i18n -> ixviiin > Perhaps we should get with that whole retro thing and introduce the use > of Roman numerals here ... thus giving us "ixviiin" instead of "i18n". > > This solution has several advantages: > > 1) It is byte-optimized for words of 12 or 52 characters (for example > "localization" becomes "lxn" instead of "l10n"). > > 2) It will work a whole lot better with those pesky search engines that > are confused by word internal digits. > > 3) It can be less jarring to read - for example, "five" for "freeze" > instead of "f4e". > > 4) But best of all, nothing can match the sheer joy of the hunt when > confronting a sentence like, "The evil of the evil is not evil, but the > evil of the evil is evil.", which, it turns out, is the numeroromanymic > version of, for example, "The eschewal of the excretal is not eventful, > but the espousal of the ethereal is eventual." > > Just a suggestion ;i) > > Dean A. Snyder > Scholarly Technology Specialist > Center For Scholarly Resources, Sheridan Libraries > Garrett Room, MSE Library, 3400 N. Charles St. > The Johns Hopkins University > Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 > > office: 410 516-6850 mobile: 410 245-7168 fax: 410-516-6229 > Digital Hammurabi: www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi > Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding: www.jhu.edu/ice > > >
