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From: dgs on 16 Aug 2006 21:27 The Reid wrote: > Following up to dgs > >>Oh, and Seattle population is barely 600,000; the metro area is less >>than three million. > > i understand it has mountiains too. Seattle itself is quite hilly, but the mountains are some distance away, both to the east and the west. To the east lie the Cascades, to the west lie the Olympics. If you like long hikes in wilderness country, or hiking up a mountain trail to the face of a glacier, or hiking up a mountain trail to alpine meadows, you'll like these. Not much trace of ancient civilizations in them, though. Which reminds me that I owe a friend in Belgium a nice picture of the Olympics, of which we have a very good view from our west- facing living-room window. -- dgs
From: mrtravel on 16 Aug 2006 21:29 jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > On our recent trip to Sardinia I was surprised that so few people spoke > English. This is one of the reasons we rented a beach house a few years ago at Torre delle Stelle. We rarely saw Americans. Of course, you need to make sure you don't order the horse meat, but that is part of the adventure. Unfortunately Alitalia lost it's cheap competitor, Volare on the FCO-CAG route.
From: Stephen Dailey on 16 Aug 2006 22:26 On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:48:18 +0100, The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: > Following up to dgs > >> Oh, and Seattle population is barely 600,000; the metro area is less >> than three million. > > i understand it has mountiains too. If it hasn't erupted in the last few hundred years or isn't snow-capped year round, it's a "hill," not a "mountain." :-) === Steve Shoreline, Washington USA smdailey(a)seanet.com 16 Aug 2006, 1926 PDT
From: dgs on 16 Aug 2006 23:29 Tchiowa wrote: > [...] English is the primary and *official* language of > government for the EU. Y'know, it would be a great idea if you spent a little less quality time on the crack pipe before posting this lunatic nonsense. The EU conducts its parliamentary sessions in 20 languages, not just English. There's nothing "primary" about it. The EU is legendary for the vast amounts of paper consumed in publishing translations from any given language to all the others. Yeah, English is sometimes used for internal work, as is French and German. It is far from being the primary and "*official*" language of the EU, though. > It is the primary language of business > throughout the EU. It's *a* language of business throughout the EU, with the obvious exceptions of the UK and Ireland. English might mixed with local languages, or it might be used as a lingua franca in a multi- national team. > It is the primary language for education throughout > the EU. Right. They just quit teaching everything in their native language in, say, France, Germany, and Poland. Sure. You bet. Kids learn it before their own native tongues. > Time to get back into the current century. > > http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-166.html "Current century?" Not with that reference; published in 2000 (end of last century) and cites work from 20 years before that. That, and it discusses English as a third language (L3) in various European contexts. Keep up with the lunatic nonsense, though. You're really succeeding at getting people to believe it by the classic Usenet method of "proof by repeated and blatant assertion." -- dgs
From: Carole Allen on 16 Aug 2006 23:44
>Following up to dgs > >>Oh, and Seattle population is barely 600,000; the metro area is less >>than three million. > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:48:18 +0100, The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: >i understand it has mountiains too. >-- Yes, we have the Olympics and of course the Cascade range. But then again, the Cascade range is considered volcanically active. Ya, know, we did have that big St. Helens blow in 1980 - blew the top right off it, it did...buried stuff in ash all around.. killed a few people, killed lots of trees and animals. For the last year or so it has been actively rebuilding its cone, occasionally sends up some steam or smoke. But on a day like today Mt. Rainier just sits there looking like a gigantic ice cream cone. |