Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

En réponse à Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>:

>
> Hmmm... Bordaux is something like in the Atlantic just North from the
> Pirinees... not real sure.
Quite correct.

  Anyhow Nice is in the cote d'azur: the
> French mediterranean, close to Cannes and Monaco.
>
Spot on! :)))

> Now, who dares locating Medellin, Maracaibo, Guayaquil or Arequipa?
>
Well, I must have heard those names, but don't ask me to locate them. I've
never been good at geography anyway (let's say the teachers never managed to
interest me in geography and history as taught at school. But that must be
because I always resisted brainless learning by heart of lists, whether they
are dates or capitals).

>
> I once was supposed to know all the capital cities, and all seas,
> gulfs
> and peninsulas in the old world at school (previous year was the same
> with the Americas), and I was quite good at it (at least before the
> test).
>
I myself had such tests, and was good at them, but like anything I had to learn
by heart for no good reason, I've forgotten it all.

Christophe.

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