Re: OT: baloney and cheese
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 17, 2003, 20:33 |
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Quoting Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>:
> Joe Fatula wrote:
>
> >So this weekend, I'm going to ask some
> >of the people I meet the following questions:
> >
> >1) What country is something Swiss from?
> >2) Is Switzerland a real country?
> >3) Where is Switzerland? (on a map without labels)
>
> You should also include a question to see if they can tell
> "Switzerland"
> from "Sweden". Believe it or not, I've known quite a few people who
> can't!
> There was a Swiss girl, who spoke GERMAN, who moved here in high school.
> At
> the time, I had to keep reminding some of my friends that she wasn't
> "the
> Swedish girl". Now it's a couple of years later, and in everyone's
> memory
> she is officially Swedish.
I used to believe that the jokes about Americans whose only knowledge of
Sweden is that Switzerland is the capital of Stockholm were quite unfair, but
life has tought me otherwise. Is there any particular explanation for this in
my eyes very strange confusion? Are there similar confusions about, say,
Portugal and Poland?
Incidentially, I saw a webpage that spoke of the tiny landlocked European
kingdom of Swaziland ...
Andreas
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