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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place"
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Liz |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place" |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:58:08 +1000 |
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Jim Busser wrote:
> On 2011-09-17, at 8:31 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>
>>> Shall I ask a local list of english-speaking doctors a
>>> preference? I am sure they may prefer one among {Town, Urb}
>>> to 'Place'.
>>
>> Yes, please.
>
> The reply was
>
> Urb doesn't really work .....there is a strong rural culture that
> characterises rural as "not urban"
>
> so I then proposed
>
> Municipality
>
> which was approved of.
>
> (While there is no perfect agreement on what municipality necessarily
> means -- on account of variation in governmental statutes and regulations,
> same as for town, city etc -- we are IMO safe to expect general agreement
> that 'municipality' can extend from village all the way up through city.)
>
> -- Jim
>
Municipality is urban_only in Australia. Urb is a non_word. People may
live in the 'burbs but that is urban only too.
Australian usage would understand 'Town / City / Suburb'
I have my surveyor son sitting next to me who says " 'Locality', but no
one is going to know what that means "
- [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/16
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/16
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Karsten Hilbert, 2011/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Karsten Hilbert, 2011/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place",
Liz <=
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Karsten Hilbert, 2011/09/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Karsten Hilbert, 2011/09/19
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/20
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Karsten Hilbert, 2011/09/20
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/20
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Karsten Hilbert, 2011/09/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Liz, 2011/09/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place", Jim Busser, 2011/09/18