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

 --- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote: >  --- Thomas R. Wier skrzypszy:
>
> > My friend once put it this way, teasingly: for
> Europeans, there
> > are really only three, perhaps four, U.S. States
> with salient,
> > individual cultures and characteristics:  New York
> (cultured
> > and worldly), California (innovative and
> laid-back), Texas
> > (ignorant, gun-toting, with fascist tendencies),
> and perhaps
> > Florida ("sunny" dispositions and problems with
> voting systems).
> > All others fall into the "Here Be Dragons"
> category.
>
> I think you might - hesitantly - add Massachusetts
> to the list, known here for
> being a relatively European (and therefore
> relatively civilized) state.
> Chicago is very renowned for being the world's mafia
> capital, but nobody here
> has every heard of Illinois.
and if they had, they'd call it /IlI'nwa/ ( and iowa
would be /'j@Uv@/ )

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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