Julf wrote: > You do know that they don't teach geography at school, don't you? (as a > separate subject)
No, I didn't. That might explain it! I've got this idea in my head that their globes and maps have one land mass marked "USA" and anything else marked, "non-USA". ;) Which reminds me of standing at a bar in a Las Vegas casino..... Start talking to a Texan couple, him in a 500 gallon hat. "Love, your accent", she said. Conversation goes on to them telling me about their trip to Europe. How they visited Buckingham Palace, "where the queen lives". OK, so far, all good. Then the confusion starts. Turns out that was a one day trip, out of two weeks they spent in Paris. Can't quite comprehend that the UK is a separate country, not a part of France. I think she would have grasped it better if she had flown into the UK and landed at Heathrow, or taken a boat over water from Calais to Dover, but it seemed that because they had taken a train from Paris to London, without stopping, that it all must be the same country! Couldn't quite grasp that you could cross borders into another country by train..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
