On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Geoff Roberts wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 3:31 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: City Names
>
>
> > > > Just back from Warschau (Poland) - Thanks. And BTW: since Karfreitag
> >
> > > Where? Oh, you mean Warszawa. Warsaw. ;-)
> >
> > (You're just lucky that's one of the few polish words without lots of
> > accents etc.) Hmm do you want to start another War ? ;)
> >
> > If you live in a city like Munich you learn about the ways
> > of naming a city - and of coure how senseless it is to
> > belive in calling a thin worldwide with one single name.
>
> Well, maybe you could explain it to me, I'm afraid I don't get it. :^)
> I always wondered why Munich sometimes gets shown as Munchen. I can't do
> those funny accented characters, (umlauts?) even if I knew what they meant,
> just as well, most people around here have enough difficulty with 26
> letters. I don't know how you guys cope with all the extras, not to mention
> all this masculine/feminine/neuter gender and case stuff. Confused the hell
> out of me.
>
> > > > to find out that I had no Swiss power adaptor at hand (thy use a
> > > > different connector)...
>
> Good things about living in a single island country that's larger than most
> of Europe.
>
> 1) Everybody speaks English. ('Cepting a few migrants/boat people....:^)
English? I thought you chaps spoke "Strine". At least that's what a
former neighbor who came from there acknowledged. He allowed as how folks
in the east and west have difficulty in communicating :)
- don
> They expose kids to other languages at school, but theres is no real
> need/pressure to learn one to a level where conversation is possible.
> (Who we gonna practice on/talk to?)
> Some do learn Indonesian or Japanese, but most don't bother.
> 2) You don't need a passport to drive across the road. Or travel 2000km for
> that matter.
> 3) 240VAC 3 pin sockets are a national standard.
>
> Disadvantages are mostly that we can't get feel of other European cultures
> without flying a few thousand miles. I can't drive to another country. I
> sometimes envy you guys for that, heck I don't even have a passport, there's
> nowhere for me to use without an air ticket. I'd love to travel, Europe,
> the USA etc, but on my income, it's unlikely I will ever get overseas, and I
> don't have the kind of job or work for a company that would need me to do
> so. I could probably manage a trip to Indonesia one day, (about the same
> distance as Sydney to Perth) but the tropics don't really attract me, it
> gets hot enough around here.;^)
> CNN is about the nearest I get. Upside is that I can now read most of the
> Cyrillic alphabet after 4 weeks of watching snippets of Serbian TV news
> subtitles!
> (Well I can read Belgrad(e) Pristina and Novi Sad anyway)
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff Roberts
> VK5KDR
> Computer Systems Manager
> Saint Marks College
> Port Pirie, South Australia
> geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
>
>
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