Re: CHAT Stambul (was: A new version of Genesis)

When I was young, we used to live a few km from a
100,000 people town, and when we went shopping or
doing other activities there, we said "je vais en
ville" (I'm going [in]to city).

When I settled in Paris suburbs and kept saying so,
meaning "going to Paris", I usually was mocked by
people living there. They said: what city ? there is
nothing else than city, here.

So I stopped saying "je vais en ville", just like I
stopped pronouncing "vinte" for "vingt", for similar
reasons; now I pronounce "vingt" (twenty) like "vin"
(wine) and everybody is happy.

--- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > When I visited San Francisco a long time ago--
> stayed with relatives in one
> > of the suburbs-- they and neighbors consistently
> referred to "The City".
> > Similarly in NYC, tho "The City" means Manhattan,
> nowhere else.  In my
> > admittedly sketchy contacts, I don't recall any
> others referring to their
> > metropolis as "The City". Bostonians??
> Chicagoans?? Philadelphians??
> > Atlantans?? Angelenos?? Houstonians??
> Minneapolitans?? I don't think so.
>
> "The Twin Cities".
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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