Ah! And as a unilingual speaker, I can say
that the border expeditions are mostly English affairs. Thanks to the
smart Europeans who unlike we North Americans find it convenient to learn more
than one language. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I shudder to think of a next border expedition
being conducted entirely in Finnish. Ko ko kokoko...
Doug
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 4:41
PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: National
Geographic Quiz
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "anorak222
>
> wouldnt you be if everyone accepted your money & spoke
your
> > language & ate your hamburgers etc
>
> Where
does this idea come from that everyone accepted US
dollars?
obviously local money & speech etc are practically always the
most acceptable mediums everywhere
nor did i mean to suggest
otherwise
but since you are reciting & so presumably asking me
here
in the interest of making your point
perhaps i am bound to assist
your try for the source of this
so
i
myself
have found
usdollars & english far more useful than any other
nonlocal mediums of
exchange
practically everywhere i have gone
admittedly only about 35
countries but a fair sampling
this blanket observation has usually
included even the
currencies of immediately adjacent countries
for
example usdollars trump brazilian cruzeiros in peru
etc etc
&
it has been my long & preponderant experience thruout the
western
hemisphere & some places in the old world too
so preponderant that i
make it a rule to hold on to as many
dollars as possible
& to get
rid of any leftover local currency before crossing a border
> About
the language ... many people in the world learn English,
but once they
visit the United States they'll learn that Americans
don't.
whattt
do you mean foreigners in the usa will learn that americans
dont
learn english
hahahaha
an extra dose of irony about american
indifference
or just a slip of your keyboard
funny either way
but
perhaps you really mean something else
> But you score a point for
the hamburgers, McDonalds are
ubiquitous around the world. Even though
their product range
has ethnical variations you don't find in their home
country.
>
> Regards
delicious thanx tho i am not keeping
score
the only point making i really care about is
trypointing
regards
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