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Did You Know Addresses Don’t Work the Same Way Everywhere?

It’s really cool to find out that I’ve been using a basic assump­tion that I didn’t even know was there.

There are some things that are so fun­da­men­tal to the way that peo­ple where we grow up think that we don’t even real­ize that cer­tain basic assump­tions have been made.  It is not until we see for our­selves that peo­ple else­where do it dif­fer­ently, or hear about it, that we real­ize, “Oh wow, there is another way to do this!”

As they say, fish know noth­ing of water.

Take a look at this quick lit­tle gem.  I’ll bet you never real­ized that the way we think of addresses in the West isn’t the only log­i­cal way to do it!