- From: Paul Houle <ontology2@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:15:52 -0400
- To: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
- Cc: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>, Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com>, Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert@ugent.be>, "public-lod@w3.org community" <public-lod@w3.org>
I can't speak for other countries in North, South and Central America, but I can say the that United States does not have an "official" language, even though people who hate immigrants wish it did. ᐧ On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > If we want to differentiate between > > "I like the > zebra"; > > "I > don't like the document about the zebra". > > But why do they need to be on > the same domain? Several parties on > different domains can represent information > about the animal zebra. > They just seem like > different things to me. > > =========================== > There is a "what's the problem again ?" component to the problem (rinse, repeat). > > As evidence, I offer two factoids: > a) The EU has 24 "Official" languages (http://europa.eu/) > b) Americans speak 100+ languages at home (http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/) and have one "Official" language. > > It seems to me those are two solutions to the problem. > What's the problem again ? :-) > > --Gannon > > > -- Paul Houle Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype ontology2@gmail.com
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