Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:47, Carlos Thompson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:02 AM
> Subject: Re: The [+foreign] attribute
>
> > Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> korte:
> > > To give a better example, how many Americans are able to correctly
> >
> > situate
> >
> > > Washington, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing? Those are towns an
> >
> > educated
> >
> > > European is supposed to be able to situate (although I admit many
> > > won't :(( ).
> >
> > almost everyone I know can correctly situate Washington, Paris,
>
> Berlin,
>
> > Tokyo, and Beijing.
> >
> > > It's not anything against Americans, it's just to give a good
>
> reference
>
> > point.
> >
> > > Nobody will deny that world geography is better taught in Europe
>
> than
>
> > in
> >
> > > America :))) .
> >
> > I'll deny it.  How many Europeans know where Sydney, Adelaide,
>
> Brisbaine,
>
> > Darwin, and Perth are?  Just about everyone knows that they are in
> > Australia, but how many people know where they are in Australia?  I
>
> know
>
> > where they are because I had to learn them for world geography in
>
> school.
>
> I know!, I know!  Well,  Not actually sure about Brisbaine.  Isn't this
> in Queensland?  Darwin... should be in Northen Territory but not sure
> where exactly.  But please don't ask me the state Adelaide is.
>
> (Well, I have been to Sydney and Canberra, and my syster was in Melburne
> studing English)
Sydney is in the state of New South Wales, major state of the East Coast;

Melbourne is in the state of Victoria, NSW's major rival;

Brisbane's in the state of Queensland, redneck territory (Brisbane River, too
thin to plow, too thick to drink!);

Adelaide is in the state of South Australia, the crow-eaters' state;

Hobart is in the state of Tasmania, the Apple Isle;

Perth is in the state of Western Australia, a long, long ways from anywhere
else;

and Darwin is in the Northern Territory, (formerly the Northern Territory of
South Australia before Federation and the establishment of the Commonwealth
of Australia the year before my mother's father Frederick Morgan Saville was
born in Mt Morgan, Queensland, then it gave the administration to the
Commonwealth Government) which has only just recently become a state of the
Australian Commonwealth.

While the Australian Capital Territory is now a self-governing territory, and
some ACT inhabitants are quite bemused and puzzled about the whole thing.

Talk about nostalgia!  I spent some of my formative years in the ACT, and I
still love it!

Wesley Parish

>
> ;)
>
> -- Carlos Th
--
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