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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:56:45 +0100
From:      nik@iii.co.uk
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: internationalization
Message-ID:  <19980612125645.26761@iii.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:09:02AM %2B0000
References:  <646.897615430@coconut.itojun.org> <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com>

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On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:09:02AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> The origins of Kanji as an ideogrammatic writing system owe more to
> the need for Imperial China to control the availability of persistent
> information available to Chinese Serfs in support of a feudal society
> than they do to their information density compared to alphabetic
> writing systems.

I have absolutely nothing to add to the discussion, I just want to hold
up the above paragraph as a shining example of why I like these mailing
lists so much :-)

N
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