Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>>Rindler Sigurd wrote:
>>
>>>>Sounds reasonable enough. If you weren't already aware, the typhoon naming
>>>>system was changed a couple of years ago to reflect Asian names rather
>>>
>>>than
>>>
>>>>the American names previously used. Japan  continues to use its numbering
>>>>system, which I also think is easier to understand.
>>>
>>>Easier than the Japanese numbering system???
>>
>>You know 台風一号、台風二号、台風三号、、、 etc - what could be easier?
> 
> A little something like unique names (as earthquakes in Japan may have, for
> example), to tell them apart by year or approximate era. People will recall the
> Great Hanshin Earthquake or Great Kanto Earthquake for quite some time. Not so
> Earthquake Number 51 (of 2003) or Typhoon Number 4 (of 2003).

I understand what you are trying to say but I'm not so sure that it is a
problem. Ferinstance - Did earthquakes 1-50 wreck my house and business?
No. Did #51 in 2003 - Yes. I reckon in that case I'd remember #51 in
2003 for quite some time. Similarly did typhoons 1-3 take my roof off?
No. Did #4 in 2003 - Yes. I reckon in that case I'd remember #4 in 2003
for quite some time. People don't remember the Great Hanshin Earthquake
or Great Kanto Earthquake for any other reason.

> "This is the best book I've ever read! Even though I've only read one, it is by
> far the best in the world."

And the book was what?


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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying
to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor
I against them. They are "only doing their duty", as the saying goes.
Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who
would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other
hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed
bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his
country, which has the power to absolve him from evil"  - George Orwell,
England Your England, 1941