Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 16:11 |
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* Thomas R. Wier said on 2002-09-16 19:38:46 +0200
> Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> > Anyway, most Americans wouldn't be able to correctly situate Paris and
> > Prague...
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> That's true. And most Europeans would probably have difficulty
> situating St. Louis and Chicago. (I remember an anecdote on
> sci.lang several years ago to that effect.)
Chicago is up north where those big lake thingies start and is renowned for
mobsters in the thirties and has the largest population of vampires in
N. Am. according tp the rpg-company White Wolf... lotsa old bookshops and
gothic, scary places?
St. Louis is down south (way south), either by the Mississippi or in some
swamp, and there's banjo-playing moonfaced crawfish-fishers and gators there,
and they have this wannabe dress-up thingy pretending to be Venice (Italy)?
Almost forgot to mention Voodoo.
t. <-- lookie, even Europeans can be prejudiced!
Ah, the things that I still remember from junior high geography.
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