- From: Claus André Färber <w3-int-list@faerber.muc.de>
- Date: 23 Jun 1998 22:55:00 +0200
- To: www-international@w3.org
Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org> schrieb: > I would like to find out which one is better from an i18n viewpoint. > In what languages "phone" is understood? In what languages "tel" > is considered ambiguous? Any other comments? "tel" is ambiguous in nearly any Western language: telephone telefax television teletext telex teletex telecommuncications ... All of these are dereived from Latin/Greek and used with slightly different spelling in many languages. Therefore I like "phone" better, maybe even "fon" (language independent, nearly an acronym like http or ftp) or "pots". -- Claus Andre Faerber <http://www.muc.de/~cfaerber/> Fax: +49_8061_3361 PGP: ID=1024/527CADCD FP=12 20 49 F3 E1 04 9E 9E 25 56 69 A5 C6 A0 C9 DC
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