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Re: CHAT: Which world? Which culture?

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, July 14, 2003, 11:46
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Since even in small restaurants the cutlery is put according to etiquette, > it does indeed show something ;))) .
And even here in North America, where the rules of knife and fork are quite different (the right hand operates both, and the fork is in the left hand only when the knife is in the right), the setting continues to be what is rational for Europe. -- One Word to write them all, John Cowan <jcowan@...> One Access to find them, http://www.reutershealth.com One Excel to count them all, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan And thus to Windows bind them. --Mike Champion