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

 --- Andreas Johansson wrote:

>>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 rest is mainly the territory of cowboys
>>and injuns - you better won't go there unless you don't mind being scalped!
>
> Alaska, the land of ludicrous chill and huge bears, surely belongs to the
> list too.
Of course, I forgot. And now you mention it: there is Hawaii, too, the land of
palms, beaches, aloha, and pineapples.

Jan

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