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From: Richard Schaetzl <Richard.Schaetzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:22:18 +0100
Frank Ernens wrote:

> Transylvania was ....

I enjoyed your post about Transsylvania. I was tempted to write
something but refused because I wanted to avoid to look to "educative".
You expressed very good also my opinion, that somebody has to be very
carefully to make statements about people from other parts of the world,
even this statements would represent an opinion widely accepted in the
speakers cultural background. 

So "Vive la France" and "Viva Espana" and all the others too.

> I
> was once complimented by a (university-educated) American on my
> English - he had apparently confused Australia and Austria. 

When I got my first pair of ski (pre school) I wondered why they where
coming from Australia (the place famous for kangaroos and not snow ;-).


Regards

Richard





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