- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:30:56 -0000
- To: "Ronald Daniel" <rdaniel@interwoven.com>, "'Pat Hayes'" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, "Frank Manola" <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Cc: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
> > PS. One case which this might not handle well would be where the one > > string means different things in different languages. Are there any > > cases like that? > > "Chat", in French, is a cat. In English, it is an informal conversation. > I like "shopping". In British English it involves going to the supermarket and getting food; in italian you go to the posh shops and (at least think about) spend(ing) lots of money on stylish clothes. They are really very distinct activities. "shopping"/en-uk = "spesi"/it I am not really quite sure hopw to say "shopping"/it in English. Jeremy
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