Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesnews 0.1 (unido 12/05/84); site unido.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!unido!tub!cabo From: cabo@tub.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Maps are not an international langua Message-ID: <22600001@tub.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 12:20:00 EST Article-I.D.: tub.22600001 Posted: Mon Dec 2 12:20:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 06:38:27 EST References: <531@tjalk.UUCP> Sender: notes@unido.UUCP Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:tjalk:-53100:tub:22600001:000:416 Nf-From: tub!cabo Dec 2 16:20:00 1985 Excerpt from a conversation during a trip of mine to the US: I'm standing at a bus station and talking to someone in German. Some random lady: "Where are you from?" Me: "From Berlin, Germany." The lady: "Oh, really? Did you go all the way by bus?" -- Carsten Bormann, Communications and Operating Systems Research Group Technical University of Berlin (West, of course...)