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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Subject: Re: Japanese names & alphabetization
Date: 19 Oct 1996 10:52:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2eniu6dus.fsf@deanna.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Richard Pieri's message of 11 Oct 1996 09:51:22 -0400

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:

Richard> Is a convention that works considered broken? :)

Three examples:

The US System of weights and measures.

The Gregorian Calendar.

Daylight Savings Time.

'Nuf said?
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur
GNU Emacs 19.34.1 (i486-pc-linux, X toolkit) of Sun Aug 25 1996 on deanna.miranova.com


  reply	other threads:[~1996-10-19 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-07 15:04 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-08 10:40 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
1996-10-08 13:49 ` Richard Pieri
1996-10-10 22:21   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-11 13:51     ` Richard Pieri
1996-10-19 17:52       ` Steven L Baur [this message]
1996-10-20 13:11         ` luis fernandes
1996-10-08 21:01 ` Carsten Leonhardt

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