Re: Posting limits
| From: | B. Garcia <madyaas@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 12, 2004, 12:28 |
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:10:42 -0400, Carsten Becker @ school
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> Poster: "Carsten Becker @ school" <post@...>
> Subject: Re: Posting limits
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> As for the American abbreviations, I don't know all of them, althogh I can
> guess when I'm in doubt, because I know the names of most states (but don't
> know where they are on the map in most cases).
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> -- Carsten
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Interestingly, i've been confused a time or two when i've seen
Canadians abbreviate Canada as "CA", since i live in California, and
we abbreviate it as CA. The first time i was so confused. What's worse
is we have a city here in California called Ontario, and i remember
seeing on some message board a Canadian was discussing something about
Ontario in Canada, and abbreviated "Ontario, Canada" as "Ontario, CA".
What he was discussing didn't quite match up (i believe it was about
which palms he could grow in a "cold, snowy winter climate", which
Ontario in California is not)
--
Something gets lost when you translate,
It's hard to keep straight, perspective is everything
- Invisible ink - Aimee Mann -
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