Re: Not phonetic but ___???

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:00:13AM -0700, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> Yes, "l'Hexagone" is a synonym for France, thus
> "hexagonal" is sometimes used as a synonym for
> "French" (there is a book called "Parlez-vous
> hexagonal ?", which refers to administrative French).
Merci.

> If you look at a map of France, you surely will notice
> that is has the shape of a nearly perfect hexagon.
If you say so.  I think we have different conceptions of
"perfect" when it comes to hexagons.  For my money, France looks
more like an acorn. :)

> (By contrast, I always thought that USA look like a horse saddle,
That's a pretty apt comparison.

> and the climate there is absolutely horrible, not to speak about cooking).
It's impossible to make any generalizations about the climate of the
USA; it varies far too widely from region to region, and the climate of
France is somewhere in the middle of the covered range.  Ergo there must be
climatic perfection somewhere in the US, although I haven't yet found
that locale. :)

For that matter, the same variability is true of the cooking, unless
your view of "American cuisine" is limited to McFood, which is pretty
homogenous the world over.

-Mark

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