Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Carlos Thompson wrote at 2003-03-18 12:02:39 (-0500)
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
 > To: <CONLANG@...>
 > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 6:50 AM
 > Subject: Re: OT: baloney and cheese
 >
 >
 > > Quoting Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>:
 > > >  Most people also don't know which one is Latvia and which one
 > > > is Lithuania, and I'm always impressed by anyone who can find
 > > > Albania or Bulgaria on a map correctly.  Also by people who
 > > > remember the names of the countries that are in the *middle* of
 > > > Africa, and people who can label a map of Southeast Asia
 > > > accurately.
 >
 > Hmmm.  From Singapour sailing North by the west you get Malaysia,
 > Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh... on the East coast we get
 > Malaysua, Thailand, Vietnam and China.  In the middle there are
 > Laos and Cambodja.  I am not sure, however, that they are all.
 >

You're ignoring the Cambodian coastline between Thailand and Vietnam
(it's only Laos that's landlocked) but basically right.  Heading off
into the sea you get the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor.  I'm
not sure I could pinpoint Timor, but otherwise I think I could say
which country most of the major islands belonged to.  (Right now I
have a map of Asia on the wall behind me, so it's not much of a
challenge).  Of course, exactly where you consider SE Asia to end in
the sea is arguable - maybe you place the islands in "Australasia" or
"Oceania" or something of the kind.

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