From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 10:33:04 EDT
Got a great chuckle out of that!
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Snyder" <dean.snyder@jhu.edu>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
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
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