Re: Do you want a French "little" or a Dutch "little"? :))
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 4, 2002, 21:24 |
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:14:00PM -0400, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> Yeah, I think most Americans would consider a 100-year-old building to
> be very old.
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Whereas in places like England, people would laugh at you if you pointed
at a 100-year-old building and called it "very old".
T
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