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From: db@cstvax.UUCP (Dave Berry)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.travel
Subject: Re: Maps are not an international language either
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 10:59:28 EST
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In article <660@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU> jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) writes:
>The usual answer for the distance from wherever you happen to be
>(in the bush) to anyplace in the same general region is "two kilometers".
>It doesn't matter whether the actual distance is half a kilometer
>or thirty.

I found a similar problem in the USA.  No-one had any idea of how long it
took to *walk* somewhere.  When I was caught hitch-hiking in a mid-west storm
a local told me there was a motel just 5 minutes walk down the road.  By a fluke
I got my first lift for hours just after that, and it took 10 minutes *in a 
car*.  It's possible my "guide" was having some fun at my expense, but there 
were other examples too.

-- 
	Dave Berry. CS postgrad, Univ. of Edinburgh		
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