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From: dick@tjalk.UUCP (Dick Grune)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.travel
Subject: Maps are not an international language either
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 12:18:49 EST
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In article <547@dlvax1.datlog.UUCP> ajs@datlog.UUCP ( Andy Simms ) writes:
>                                     not only will you have a long wait
>for an Esperanto (or even English) speaker, but nobody will understand
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>your map either.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yes, amazingly maps are not an international language either: I found
that several bus drivers in Cairo, Egypt (which is NOT Nepal) could
not read a map of Cairo.

					Dick Grune
					Vrije Universiteit
					de Boelelaan 1081
					1081 HV  Amsterdam
					the Netherlands