Re: Term Asian is not used properly on Computers and NET

From: John Cowan ([email protected])
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 00:23:27 EDT

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David Gallardo scripsit:
> Please excuse the unintended querulousness, but isn't the Greenwich meridian
> merely the reification of this bias?

Sure. Ditto the Gregorian calendar, and the decimal digit system, and
many other international standards. But they *are* standards.

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John Cowan                                   [email protected]
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