Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities (was Re: The [+foreign] attribute)

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:59:11 +0000, Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
wrote:

>Tim May wrote:
>
>>  I _can_ name most of the national capitals in Eurasia and the
>>  Americas, though, so that's something.
>
>I used to know all in the Old World (the Caribean and Oceania are so packed
>with mini-states that I never bothered trying the New World). However, since
>you almost never talk of the capital of Niger (Niamey!) and similar
>countries, I've forgotten many African ones. I still remember all the
>European ones, and most Asian.
Hmmm... I remember learning the European capitals in high school or junior
high, and I learned the Central and South American capitals in Spanish
class. But for some reason we never learned the Asian and African capitals.
I never would have guessed that the capital of Mauritania is Nouakchott,
and if I had to guess the capital of Morocco, I'd wrongly say Casablanca
(it's Rabat). And I thought I had a reasonably fair knowledge of geography
for an American. Of course, I tend to do better with countries that have
been in the news, like Somalia (Mogadishu) and the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (Kinshasa). Maybe I ought to make a list of capital cities and
come up with Tirelat versions of them.

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