- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:08:02 -0500
- To: Etienne Kroger <etienne.kroger@welocalize.com>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Etienne Kroger scripsit: > There is an interisting discrepancy in user perception here. > > American users tend to lump what French call Afrique du Nord, Proche-Orient, > and Moyen-Orient (or Maghreb and Machreck) in one big category called Middle > East. Reuters, my employer (which is basically anglophone in orientation, though we do operate in lots of other languages), considers the Middle East and North Africa to be separate things, although Egypt is classified as both. The only other countries that have dual (non-hierarchical) classifications are Turkey and Russia, which belong to both Europe and Asia. -- "They tried to pierce your heart John Cowan with a Morgul-knife that remains in the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan wound. If they had succeeded, you would http://www.reutershealth.com become a wraith under the domination of the Dark Lord." --Gandalf
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