Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 20:33 |
=?iso-8859-1?q?bnathyuw?= scripsit:
> not that i don't understand mail in that sense as
> well, but it feels slightly foreign
Yes. In the U.K., the Royal Mail delivers the post, whereas in the U.S.
the Postal Service delivers the mail.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <jcowan@...>
"Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram
that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in
5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document
as any, even sans digital signature." --me