Re: Posting limits

Emily Zilch wrote:
> { 20040711,2322 | Tristan Mc Leay } "The last, wherever RI is..."
>
> damnit, it's a state of the US: Rhode Island. Brown University is there.
>
> sorry, i'm from RI. i get irritated. it must be like when oißlender
> don't know where Tasmania is.
Really? I don't think I've _ever_ seen that abbreviation before. I
thought I would at least recognise US State abbreviations as being US
State abbreviations, even if I couldn't expand them... (If Philip had've
said 'Rhode Island', I would've had no trouble, so it'd be more like
some oißlender not knowing where NT---the Northern Territory---was. But
even then, that wouldn't worry me. Australia's hardly the centre of the
world. I have no idea how much anyone outside here knows about us.
F'rinstance, apart from Ularu, the outback and the bush, is there any
part of Australia outside of Sydney?)

(Some things---generally international---use two-letter abbreviations
for all Australian states/territories, including Queensland, Victoria,
the ACT, New South Wales and Tasmania, which we normally give
three-letter abbreviations (Qld, Vic, ACT, NSW, Tas). My mother was
reading something related to international travel which said 'Melbourne,
VI', which she read as 'Melbourne, 6', and wondered what on Earth they
could mean by that. Terminal no., perhaps?)

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