Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!alberta!idacom!danny
From: danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: French programming languages
Summary: STOP sign
Message-ID: <720@idacom.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 23:11:38 GMT
References: <89Aug3.145600edt.10404@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <422@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Distribution: can
Organization: IDACOM Electronics Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
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In article <422@maytag.waterloo.edu>, giguere@aries5.uucp (Eric Giguere) writes:
> In article <2587@gandalf.UUCP> edlee@gandalf.UUCP (Ed Lee) writes:
>                     
> >told that France uses STOP for stop-signs so why is Quebec different.  I find
> >that Quebec like to have their trivial differences with .... everyone!!

Just to confuse the issue some more, Japan (a place where very few english
words are used) uses "STOP" on the front of the red octagonal sign.

At the same time, they use the Japanese characters for "tomare"
on the road (using paint) and on the red triangluar signs.

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Danny Wilson
IDACOM Electronics		danny@idacom.uucp
Edmonton, Alberta		{att, watmath, ubc-cs}!alberta!idacom!danny
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