On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 00:40 +0200, André Pirard wrote: > On 2012-09-13 23:38, Steve Doerr wrote : > > On 13/09/2012 21:00, St Niklaas wrote: > > > > > What about Asylum, for all animals and a tag for the spieces, > > > cats, dags, horses or guinea pigs ? > > > > That word has different connotations in English: either a lunatic > > asylum (outdated term for a hospital or home for the mentally ill) > > or political asylum (meaning the protection afforded by one country > > to refugees fleeing political oppression in their home countries). > > > > If you look at its translations, asylum is certainly a word that will > be understood by all Indo-European languages. But not the Russian, > Ukrainian Bulgarian triplet. > But I don't see well which of your meanings applies to animals ;-) > Fortunately, in addition to the same "asile d'aliénés" and "asile > politique", French has "asile de paix" that's just a calm, resting > place without any restriction regarding the guests and their need for > protection. > BTOW, French étable (stable) is just for cows, not horses. > Asylum will not be understood in the context of animal care.
As Steve Doerr said it has a completely different meaning that of this thread. Phil _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
