Re: USAGE: [T] -> [f] (formerlyChineseDialectQuestion)
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 6, 2003, 9:37 |
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Staving Nik Taylor:
>Joe wrote:
> > Heh. The pond is the atlantic. Thus, rightpondian is 'on the east of the
> > atlantic', that is, English English, and leftpondian is American English.
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>Unless you're looking at a map with south on top, England's on the left,
>and the US is on the right.
I believe such maps were briefly popular in Australia, until people
realised that they made New Zealand higher up.
Australian Passport Control Officer: Do you have a criminal record?
Stephen Fry: I didn't know you still needed one to get in.
Pete