----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce
> >Isn't that what American tourists have been teaching us?).
>
> Americans never had the monopoly on ugly-tourists (though the prevaling
lack
> of drive to even try to learn a foreign language before visiting another
> country irks me no end).
>
> I've memories from the mid-80s of watching Japanese tourists at Neu
> Schwanstein ignore protesting guides and guards as they warndered hither
and
> yon, picking up and examining priceless ceramics and other works of art.
>
Indeed. Japanses tourists are éverywhere.