[Rule-list] Need for an application database

James james at opencountry.org
Thu Mar 28 09:48:21 EET 2002


On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 01:57:01 +0100
Martin Stricker <shugal at gmx.de> wrote and hopefully I read right:

> "Rodolfo J. Paiz" wrote:
> > 
> > At 3/26/2002 08:18 PM -0800, you wrote:
> > >Just a thought... tux with a ruler sitting on a turtle who's
legs are
> > >spinning so fast they are a blur..... I'll play with that one a

> > >little.
> > 
> > JMHO: a little complicated. Symbolism is two levels deep now,
and a
> > lot of people won't grok it.
> 
> I think the turtle is easy to grok. Would be funny if there's a
rabbit,
> too, with a Windows logo on it, struggling to get forward...
*snicker*
> The ruler might be harder to grok, especially for non-English
speakers
> (ruler is Lineal in German...)

Good point Martin... I'm thinking to English here.  My wife has the
same problem when someone says Cheque Book... Cheque is the Korean
word for book. 

James

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