Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

Barry Garcia wrote:
> In all seriousness, most Americans (at least in my experience) don't think
> they're better than Canadians.
In fact, in my experience, most Americans that I know of simply consider
Canadians polite versions of Americans, who also say "eh?" and things
like "oot and aboot" alot.  ;-)

...my two cents:

hurrah for Canadian raising!

well, this is certainly nothing new. stereotypes fly both ways: the simpsons
routinely portrays canadians as being rather slow, dull people. Canadian
telivision has made a staple of going into the states and making fools of
geographical & politically ignorant americans.

one especially favourite clip of mine is from 'this hour has 22 minutes', a
political commentary/satire show on the CBC. they have a segment called
'talking to americans', and one time they were asking people on the street
if jean chretien was a war criminal and should be tried under international
law...so many peole said yes that i nearly split myself laughing. (although
come canucks would say yes too, but for entirely different and justifiable
reasons).

vive le(la?) difference!

byron

----------------------------------------------
pâtakimwukêc atimwêšup apiyêšupim ecanukwûpôk?

replyto: linguaholic@crosswinds.net
----------------------------------------------