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   RE: Foreign Names

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  • From: Joel Bender <jjb5@cornell.edu>
  • To: <xml-dev@xml.org>, <martind@netfolder.com>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:38:30 -0400

>  The Heron with its long beak has no trouble to pick the fishes
>  ...but foxes do not eat fishes and our fox compagnion can not
>  even reach them at the bottom of the jar.

That's not how I heard the story end.  The fox just dumped out the contents
of the jar on the floor of the Heron (a stork in the version I know), ate
the fish and left saying "be careful of the lessons you're trying to teach."

More to the point, does it matter?  Can't there be a one-to-one transform
between two element names?  Where the non-English form is succinct, the
English form might be a-hyphenated-list-of-words.  Not a huge problem.


Joel

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