Re: OT: baloney and cheese

At 5:14 PM -0800 3/19/03, Joe wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:28 AM
>Subject: Re: OT: baloney and cheese
>
>
>> > > Don't tell me you've got trouble locating the countries in in the
>> > centre
>> > of
>> > > Norht America? Same for Australia ... :-)
>> >
>> > Isn't Australia in the center of Europe?  ;-)  Anyhow, the most
>> > difficult
>> > states in the USA for me to locate are those in the grate lake area
>> > and
>> > westwards... This means: the middle of North America.
>>
>> But we're speaking of countries, not states. Don't get me started on how
>bad I
>> suck at idenitifying Nigerian provinces or Brazilian states.
>>
>
>Well, while we're on states - I don't have a clue about all those square
>states in western america.
Well, we Westerners have a similar complaint about all of those Eastern States with
squiggly boundaries that are about the size of a school district.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                               Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

"It is important not to let one's aesthetics interfere with the appreciation of
fact." - Stephen Anderson

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