On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
> That's pretty pedantic, when most people assume Oregon by default given > that it's the largest city on the planet with that name. > Damn straight it's pedantic. And parochial. They're both proud traditions here in old New England. I accept that remembering that Portland might be ambiguous to some ignorable percentage of the population that will be disappointed and embarrassed at being fooled once again when it's of course not our Portland that some wonderful event is coming to is just too much to expect from the cool kids spinning off other events in hometown of OSCON. But I think it's fair to expect it of self-appointed geo-encyclopedists. But I was a bit harsh to complain on it to Martijn, who being a recent transplant may reasonably have assumed the big Portland USA was named for Portland UK. Sorry Martijn. (Good luck with the Springfields as even the Simpsons can't keep them straight.) -- Bill @n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.com
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