Programmeren van de 6502

From: ceby2_at_csc.com <(ceby2_at_csc.com)>
Date: Sat Feb 16 11:50:53 2002

Please allow me to second this emotion. I'm originally from York, PA --
about as Pennsylvania Dutch as anyplace. While I intensely disliked it
growing up -- 'technological backwater' would be wrong. Backwater would be
right. Don't think of it as picturesque farms with no electric. Think of it
as aging trailer parks with abuntdant rent-to-own electronics, and plaques
above the toilets reading 'If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be sweetie --
wipe the seatie'. It the sort of place where the peeling paint from
bent-over farm-girl lawn ornaments blend nicely with the recycled tire
flowerbeds and crab grass.

I don't know about taste, but the Pennsylvania Dutch are as technologically
adept as poor white trash anywhere in America.

Colin Eby
(escapee living on the Massachussets coast)


At 01:01 AM 2/16/02 +0000, you wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, William S. wrote:
>
>> Although I am in the Netherlands I am not a native
>> speaker. I will begin my Dutch language course in
>> April but doubt I will be reading Nederlands
>> very proficiently too soon. :)
>
>Where else do they speak Dutch besides some rural parts of Pennsylvania
>where they generally shun technology? :)

The "Pennsylvania dutch" are actually german, for all I know.
Seems that like a case of one person saying "deutsche" and
another hearing "dutch". At least that's the explanation
that I heard from a native. This native was born in a farm,
then went to Drexel university, and now he's a phd and a top
programmer of web applications for research purposes. So
not all "Pennsylvania dutch" are technology averse. His
dad, still a farmer, uses a Mac. So they even have taste
in technology.

carlos.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sat Feb 16 2002 - 11:50:53 GMT