Right you are Paul. I live in Texas. Mexico does not want us back after what we did to their food, but if they find out what we do to Spanish I predict they will be building fences at the border.
IMHO, this whole catastrophe could be avoided if Google Translate spoke Zebra. Is it just me? --Gannon -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 7/17/14, Paul Houle <ontolo...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: Real-world concept URIs To: "Gannon Dick" <gannon_d...@yahoo.com> Cc: "Ruben Verborgh" <ruben.verbo...@ugent.be>, "Luca Matteis" <lmatt...@gmail.com>, "Pieter Colpaert" <pieter.colpa...@ugent.be>, "public-lod@w3.org community" <public-lod@w3.org> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2014, 3:15 PM I can't speak for other countries in North, South and Central America, but I can say the that United States does not have an "official" language, even though people who hate immigrants wish it did. ᐧ On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Gannon Dick <gannon_d...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > If we want to differentiate between > > "I like the > zebra"; > > "I > don't like the document about the zebra". > > But why do they need to be on > the same domain? Several parties on > different domains can represent information > about the animal zebra. > They just seem like > different things to me. > > =========================== > There is a "what's the problem again ?" component to the problem (rinse, repeat). > > As evidence, I offer two factoids: > a) The EU has 24 "Official" languages (http://europa.eu/) > b) Americans speak 100+ languages at home (http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/) and have one "Official" language. > > It seems to me those are two solutions to the problem. > What's the problem again ? :-) > > --Gannon > > > -- Paul Houle Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype ontolo...@gmail.com
