RE: A product compatibility question

From: Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston) (jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 12:54:55 EDT


: > Incorrect. Again, they are *not* separate languages, but two
: > orthographic renditions of the same *written* language.
: ... yet there are a few differences in the vocabulary which actually
require
: entirely different characters - and I don't just mean the traditional
and
: the simplified version of a particular character. Take e.g. the word
for
: "bicycle".
: But after all, it's AFAIK just a list - not too long - of words which
has to
: be replaced when doing a conversion, quite regularly.

You mean differences like "lift" vs "elevator", "muesli" vs "granola",
"pavement"
vs "sidewalk", etc? I do know that US and UK are two countries
separated by one
language :-)



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