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Re: OT: Merry Christmas!

From:Ph. D. <phild@...>
Date:Sunday, December 26, 2004, 23:17
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > At 20 C, I wear a jumper or not depending on activity. I > suppose that part of the source of confusion is that I don't > consider "jumper weather" to be cold -- when it's cold, you've > got a jacket over the jumper. Outdoors temperatures of > twenty or more centigrade are decidedly summery.
I'm going to assume "jumper" means something like "sweater" outside of the United States. Here when I hear of a "jumper," I picture a dress with wide straps which girls wear over a regular shirt. (Not that I have a problem with males wearing dresses or skirts. When the economy was better, I used to spend my weekends handing out in the bookstores and coffee shops of Ann Arbor. There was a group of five or six teenagers whom I'd see regularly. One of the boys always wore a dress or a skirt. I'm too old and culturely conditioned to do that, but I always thought that was pretty cool.) --Ph. D.

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