From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Sep 11 09:33:17 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 11 Sep 2002 16:33:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 70729 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 16:33:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Sep 2002 16:33:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 16:33:16 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA22126; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:44:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209111644.MAA22126@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:33:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Le Petit Prince: Can we legally translate it? To: arosta@uclan.ac.uk (And Rosta) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:33:10 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com (jcowan), pycyn@aol.com (pycyn), lojban@yahoogroups.com (lojban) In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Sep 11, 2002 03:54:03 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta scripsit: > How does that work, being in Baker Street last Saturday, in 1895? It's not easy. > I had supposed pc to be saying that he was in the Sherlock Holmes > museum last Saturday on his summer hols (221 is a bank & -- iirc -- didn't > exist in the 1890s). At that time, the house that Dr. Watson called "221B Baker Street" was in fact officially known as "30 York Place", but York Place was a short street joining Baker Street and Upper Baker Street, later relabeled. (York Place ran from Paddington Street/Crawford Street north to Marylebone Road.) There were and are lots of other York this-n-thats on the London map, so "York Place" without specifying "Baker Street" would have been hopelessly ambiguous. The modern (post-1930) number is 111 Baker Street. Holmes's house was definitively identified by one Dr. Gray Chandler Briggs, based on his chance discovery around 1930 of a building actually bearing the plaque "Camden House", which we are told in "The Adventure of the Empty House" stands directly across from Holmes's building. (Doyle claimed this was a total coincidence, and said he had not been in Baker Street for at least 30 years -- but from the Holmesian point of view, the identification is far too satisfying to give up.) -- There is / One art John Cowan No more / No less http://www.reutershealth.com To do / All things http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With art- / Lessness -- Piet Hein