Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities (was Re: The [+foreign] attribute)
| From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 19:24 |
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When I competed in Academic Decathlon my senior year
of high school, we had to memorize all the national
capitals. We came up with crazy mnemonics like "Accra
is the capital of Ghana because you get gonorrhea in
the back of an Acura"!
Clint
--- 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.
>
> Andreas
>
>
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