Re: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why Triggers?)

At 02.01 p.m. 25.10.2001 +0200, you wrote:
>I disagree. Compare: The Hague, Los Angeles, Las Palmas etc.
>The Netherlands is actually short for:
>
>"the Kingdom Of The Netherlands"
One does not capitalise short prepositions or articles in titles: 'the
Kingdom of the Netherlands'.

>The Netherlands is called just Nederland (singular, as opposed to the
>English plural form) or fully the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der
>Nederlanden).
And there we go, more lowercased forms.

>I see The Netherlands a lot...
I still reckon it looks broken.

>My opa's (why the sudden capitalization?) all died while I was on
>vacation... talking about inconsiderate! <pun intended>
The 'sudden' capitalisation is an established practice in English: one
capitalises the titles 'Mum' (or "Mom"), 'Dad', 'Grandma' etc. And in the
case of 'Oma'/'Opa', when I tried to include them in a story in Grade One
or something, my teacher capitalised them and so that's just stuck with
them. Why the sudden apostrofication? (to coin a term.)

Pop (paternal grandfather) died before I was born. In fact, he was also
dying at an inconsiderate time: my parents had to get married a week before
Valentine's Day so that he could be around for it... (the wedding, not V's D.)

I always knew the man next door (Levus, or something) as 'Grandad'. It
never struck me as odd that his wife was Margaret, not Granma, and that he
wasn't related to us. It did, however, strike me as odd that he wasn't my
grandad. Insane children...

>And still making a fuss about taking in a few boat refugees? Hah!
'Boat refugees'? Now _that's_ weird. 'Boat people' (being the right-wing,
don't-let-the-damn-boat-people-in term) or 'Refugees' (being the left-wing
term). And _I_ never made a fuss about it. As far as I'm concerned, they
can come in so long as they assimilate into our country. But don't forget
that Australia consists of desert and the odd green patch (green=brown).
(Our PM, Little Jonnie, recieved a standing ovation when in America. Had he
been in Australia, the only reason anyone would have been standing would
have been to get better aim... (Tristan realises that had 10 November been
a week ago, Howard would've got a third term in office (which may have
resulted in the third PM to die while in office. (One of them, Harold Holt,
was lost while swimming. So we named a swimming pool after him ;) )))
(Remind me not to embed brackets that deeply in future.) In a country where
voting is compulsory, you get two kinds of votes: stupid votes and protest
votes. (Tristan is pissed off because he misses out on voting this time by
half a year... Stupid minimum age of 18...)

Tristan

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