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From: phelland@ADAM.ADELAIDE.EDU.AU (P Hellander)
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Subject: CITEAA XV Conference
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:29:02 GMT
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NETWORK FRIENDS!

This notice originally went out on LANTRA-L [Interperting/Translating
Discussion group], though it may have wider appeal to members of other
lists - especially if there are list members from Australia who may
be interested - or if you simply fancy a break in the  'Golden State'
Pass it on, if you think you may have colleagues interested. Thanks :-)

ph

PS CITEAA XV=The 15th Conference of the Interpreter Translator Educators'
   Association of Australia

--------------------------- original note to LANTRA-L------------------

I am forwarding a copy of the (draft) ITEAA '92 programme. Although it is
unlikely that we will see any of you there [the tyranny of distance that is
our fate DownUnder!] you may be interested to see some of the topics to be
discussed. All queries should be addressed to:-

	ANNE JEAVONS - CONVENOR CITEAA XV
	PO BOX 9, WEST PERTH, WA 6872
	Tel: +619 427 2263 Fax: +619 328 6745

Best Wishes,

Paul Hellander
---------------------------- scissors please! ---------------------------

       PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME FOR CITEAA '92 - Subject to modification

FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER  1992

a.m.	INTERPRETING - THE INTERNATIONAL VIEWPOINT
	Keynote Speaker: Dr Duangtip Surintatip, Bangkok
	Papers:	Leong Ko: Interpreting/Translating in business settings
		and the role of Educators
		Ahmet Ozirmak: Interpreter translator training in Turkey
		Lam Wai-Hung: Interpreting for the Government - Do theories
		matter?

	Panel Discussion

p.m.	INTERPRETING FOR THE DEAF
	Papers:	Dr Pierre Gorman: Oral Interpreting
		Marie Madden: Technical sign development in a university

	Poster session

	I/T PROFESSION UPDATE
		John Kiosoglous: Admin. Appeals Tribunal
		Dr. David Sang: National Special Project
		Mary Gurgone: AUSIT
		Bente Sorensen: WAITI

	Workshops

SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 1992

a.m.	ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE ISSUES
	Keynote Speaker: John Williams-Mozley, Attorney General Department
	Canberra
	Paper:	Charlie Staples: A community approach to communication

	TRANSLATION
	Papers:	Dr Farid Lian: of training and managing a translation/
		editorial section.
		Dr Helene Jaccomard: Translating K.S. Prochard's "Coonardo"
		into French - the personal experience

	Workshops

p.m.	SHORT COURSES
	Papers:	Dagmar Dixon: Short Interpreting Courses - a pragmatic
		approach to the 'many languages' problem.
		Yong Zhong: a Chinese for special purposes NAATI accredited
		Level 2 programme

	I/T TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
	Paper:	Paul Hellander: Transnational Translator networking.

	ITEAA AGM (members only)

	CONFERENCE CLOSE
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:53:53 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Election
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>Singer-Schrier vs Harwell-Sjostrom

Aw, man, why do *I* always have to sleep on the wet spot!

-abh
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Rolled trousers and peaches

>> trousers and walk upon the beach.
>
>        Oh, go etherise yourself upon a table.
>
>Czarina
>chucking out her coffee spoons

That's the thing about Rita--she's got an even disposition--
always angry.

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:32:04 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Not being taken for an American
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> they thought I was. Has any American ever been taken for an American
> abroad?

Would-be guides in Morocco always harrassed me in English, which led me
to believe they thought I was from somewhere English-speaking.  I finally
caught on to say "no English."  If they switched to French, I would say
"no francais."  They usually gave up then since I didn't look like a
speaker of Arabic.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:30:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      RE: Geekazoids

Okay, how about "Geekitos"?  Delicious with jalapen~o cheese!  8-)
(Aw, c'mon!  My first choice was Killer Bitch Geeks from Hell!)

John "Your Logo Here" W.

ps- what happened to "Words-L - Where The Weak Are Killed & Eaten"?  Are
we getting mellow?  (Mka hopes so...)
From: gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL (Graham Toal)
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Subject: RE: Gender
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:01:25 GMT
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> Would a voodoo practitioner?

I dunno.  Would you do that voodoo that you do so well?

G
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:00:45 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
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              92 11:51 am

> Now, I'd hafta debate that, Rita.  You certainly do not fit into any
> preconceived stereotypes of computer geeks that I have.  One, you have a
> life.

	//anne//, much as I love ya, you have to stop blowing my cover.
I work very hard at constructing the illusion that I live on and for
the Net, and all it takes is one little slip like this to cause my
intricate facade to come crashing down around me.

	I DO NOT HAVE A LIFE.

Rita
PS.  Denver is beautiful, Anne.  Gerry must be something and a half for
you to leave there to come to Boston.
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:53:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      WHTMIPP

I watched the tide go in and out, and wondered at it as always.
I watched the sun set, and looked again for the green flash.
I watched the full moon rise, and wished upon the evening star.
I watched the pelicans dive, and wondered why they never strike bottom.
I drank Tecate, with limes.
I sweated like a bastard.
I forgot how old I was when applying for a visa.
I asked for la cuenta, and got el cinicero.
I wondered at a country that has honest merchants, and train robberies.
I wondered what my problem was, and decided that it was other people.
I decided I couldn't do anything about it, and not to worry about it.
I wished that those confederate surveyors hadn't kinked the border.
I wonder if BC is for sale, and how much the Republica would want for it.
I thought about how far in you had to be to not have a "Front Son" license.
I rejoiced in coming home.
I wonder if I'll ever go back.
Why does Mexico make me feel like weeping?
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:24:17 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!l
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              92 9:11 pm

> 	once knew someone who named his floppies after all the valid syllogisms
> 	-- barbara, celarant, whatever) Geeks can be female.
>
> Where did silly jisms come into this?  Or female Greeks?  You're Tushar!
> Admit it!

	Moo ha ha!

Rita
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:39:08 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Dictionaries
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              12 Aug 92 10:53:49 -0400. <9208121559.AA28034@sics.se>

  Karen asks:

  >Torkel--do you get these from an on-line webster's somewhere,
  >or do you type these in?  If it's from on-line, I would like
  >to know the address, please.

  I get them locally, through the "webster" command, from the big fat and
very good webster that comes with the Next machine. However, the list
of internet goodies  Natalie posted the other day - I don't have it now -
contained, I think, the address of a webster service.
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: baby news?
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:19:47 GMT
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Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer) says:

>Ruth, in understandable and forgivable Baptist iggurunce, thinks:
>>I'll bet the babies cry at the bris, though - no anesthetic!
Well, at least give me credit for knowing the right word.:-)  I'm just a poor
lonely little Christian in a town full of Conservative, Reform and Orthodox
Jews.  I don't get invited to that kind of stuff too often, <gentile> that I
am.
>
>the baby gets a generous swig of wine before the procedure -- very little
>crying ensues, in my admittedly  limited experiences (and according to
>numerous reports).
Just think about when that wine wears off.... I just hope the Moyel doesn't
get a generous swig of wine beforehand too.<whoops!>

-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:47:03 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
              17 Aug 1992 06:51:13 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 06:51:13 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>I've got a new option now.  Yesterday my neighbor said that he has a
>386/33 sitting there with 8 mg RAM already installed and that it wouldn't
>take but a minute to put in a 200-mg disk -- that maybe I would just as
>soon trade my old one (386/25) for it instead of upgrading.

Uh, not to sound *prescriptivist* or anything Natalie, but every time
I read one of your computer postings I see "8 milligram RAM" and "200
milligram disk".  I suggest that mg is a very rare abbreviation for
megabyte.  Meg, MB, and M are common.  (Then there is the argument
about whether a Meg is 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes.)

Tony H.
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 15:57:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
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> >a male buying a sports car signifies childishness?  Does anyone
> >ever say that a female is acting childish if she buys a sportscar?
>
>
> Childish, yes, <in the nicest possible way>. While we're on this feminist
> thread, consider the women your age who would be <relieved> is all they were
> called is "childish" if they bought a sportscar.
>
> -abh

Rather than, uh, <slut> <tramp> <golddigger> <ball-buster> <Little
Miss Muffet> <asking for it> <sun queen> <fairy godmother> <bitch>
<airhead> <available> <waitress> <beauty operator>......
"Childish" sounds sweet.....  Thanks peace don for that compliment.
--ggs (holding out for a woman in a Miata and suddenly remembering
that -abh drove a *Mustang* <ohmygod> to the bake....)
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:11:20 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: The sole of a new machine
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> Also, for those of us who are vi-literate, the command-line editor in
> vi mode is faster than csh bangs.

What are csh bangs?  I'm in vi right now since I extracted lines from
your posting.  (I have vi set as my default editor and use ~m and ~e
when I want to quote a previous note.)  If I'm writing a note without
quoting, I don't usually have reason to invoke vi.  I just write merrily
along.  Am I banging when I'm not vi'ing??
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 04:28:10 GMT


In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>I want to hear the joke!  I want to hear the joke!
>I am so upset about not hearing the joke that I just cant
>hardly <think straight>!!!!
	You can't do that anyway, especially after eating all those <unmade>
cookies.
>I want to hear the joke!
	Why did the chicken not cross the road?
	
	Giggles was reported heading that way in his kiddymobile, and the
chicken didn't have a death wish!
	<gd&r>

Ruth
ps - will that do?
  
-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:49:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIPP
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What is PP?  Puerto Pe~nasco?  Yes?  Si'????
--ggs
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:10:00 EST
From:         RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Subject: Re: Regional usages/genteelism
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<<Carol (gentle, gentille, genteel, and gentile)

--You left out _jaunty_
   (These words represent borrows _at different times_ from the same
     French original, n'est-ce pas?)
-Rod (Jaunty but not gentile)
From: R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn Duncan)
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Subject: Re: ADBAM and baby update
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:51:42 GMT
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:20:24 EDT Elaine M Brennan said:
>Diffily baby boy arrived via Caesarian at 7:45 this morning.
>
>Both are reported to be in good condition.

HOORAY!!!!!
>
>Elaine

Evelyn
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 09:36:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: Soapbox/Bullshit
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Actually, I think he meant precisely what you inferred.  Jim has spent his
life studying people in cages.  (I know this because he sent me his
CV to show us his qualifications for studying us during the ProjectH
affair...)

     Ooo.  Dish, dish.

     Carol
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:15:34 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Real Freshpeople
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> > will no doubt be the first-ever college course for most of them.  What
> > profound things can any of you think of that I should tell them today?
>
> Get a good start and sail on a lifted tack?

Excellent suggestion but it arrived too late.  Maybe I can use it at the
second class meeting.  And speaking of lifted tacks, when is Steve really
coming back?  His occasional hops onto the list are teasing us unfairly.
And when are we gonna hear from Bill in Dublin?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:11:00 EST
From:         Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Music Junkie
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>Greetings,
>
>Damn, ABH's true identity as the BHBWP (Bleeding Heart Bandwidth Pig) is
>finally revealed for all.  Okay, Adam, how much did you pay her for that
>damned tribute??
>
>Marty

Sir!  I am <shocked>!  That post was <most> unexpected!

Harumph.

--Adam (ahartfie@{drew, drunivac}{.bitnet, .drew.edu})
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:37:29 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: lightening
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> >[re: Carpal tunnel syndrom in pregnancy]
> Zowie.  That's about the only pregnancy-related condition besides
> gestational diabetes that I *didn't* develop.

And I think Anne had both of these, Susan!!!  Plus a lot of others.

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:12:12 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Rolled trousers and peaches

>>>I feel old, I feel old, and my pants is rolled..
>>
>>Oh, go ahead.  Eat a peach.  But don't wear white flannel
>>trousers and walk upon the beach.
>
>...and you, dear Ausbrook, may thank the whole list for leaving that one for
>you.
>
>-abh


Oh thank you, List, thank you. And most especially you pigs out
there in Words-L Land.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

-Mka
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From:         Absolut Bandwidth <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List wars
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>You people are far too uptight.


<OW!> Who you directing that at?
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Let's try this again, shall we?
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Sport and Arts I think.
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:35:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Clambake Pictures
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Enjoying a moment of calm amid the storm with my tc/sw, the
calm attributable to the fact that we just returned from looking
at a *Jaguar* that tc/sw wants to buy to replace our too-family-
looking-and-acting Plymouth Voyager, in a sort of <tit-for-tat>
move (-ggs has Miata tc/sw has Jaguar), I sat next to tc/sw and
showed her a stack of clambake pictures....  making smalltalk
like here's Adam and this is Rita and there is Nico in his APO
shirt and look at Plotkin and there's Jenna and there's a marine
and this is love judith and here's -abh in profile (always in
profile a little more of the back of the head than anything no
full frontal at all) and there is G from MOB and this is Neal
the baseball boy and there's Karen and here's Don and his fiancee
and there's //anne// and I see Marty and who is this I don't
know and ...... WHERE IS NATALIE??????   Dozens of photos and
not a single one of NATALIE??????  So then I realize, of course
not, these are the photos from NATALIE..... she is not in a single
one of them....   Then I look at the group photos and *I* am in
none of them....   then I see, in one group photo, by the fire,
there is -ggs in the most surprising place!!!!
Can you find me, Natalie dear?  Look again....  there I am....
ah hah!!!
And, tc/sw really enjoys hearing about these wordslers, is not
hostile at all and I think this is *really* wierd, then I remember,
of course, its the *Jaguar*!!!!!  ('85 with only 60,000 miles and
looks brand new...  very nice.  very nice.....)
.
Moral to story:  it takes so little to make <one's> tc happy.
--ggs (getting ready to say goodbye to a Plymouth Voyager and the
       <family-man> image)
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:37:26 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Lexis Request

>Hey, what does your Lexis say about Microsoft Windows?

3,970 articles this year alone.

your humble researcher
-Mka
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:10:28 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      1/0
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              18 Aug 1992 17:00:16 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:00:16 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>
>I know.  That's one of the first warnings I always give to new e-mailers.
>I was talking about display.  Printers don't always distinguish between
>0 and O or 1 and l.

Interesting....don't think I've ever seen a computer printer, whether
chain, drum, dotmatrix, daisywheel, laser, etc, that did NOT so distinguish.
I WILL admit that some of them are much less distnictive than MY old eyes
would like...of course that doesn't mean that such don't exist in the
backwoods of MS......        8-)

dan
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:45:13 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Not being taken for an American
              14 Aug 1992 06:15:42 PDT from <pwiebe@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>

On Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:15:42 PDT s mandell said:
>Karen asked:
> Has any American ever been taken for an American abroad?

[list of unflattering characteristics of the American Abroad]

Of course another side to this is the horror Canadians have of
being taken for Americans abroad ;-) .  And who are the worst for
assuming that Canadians just naturally must be Americans ?
The travelling Americans, of course.

Woman in the Paris airport (while in line for currency exchange):
 Were you on PanAm from New York ?
Me: No - Air Canada from Toronto
Woman: Oh - you have friends in Toe-RON-toe ?
Me: Well - I live there.
Woman: Oh!  So you're *Canadian* ?


At a concert also in Paris - woman admires Barbara's "funky" glasses:
Did you get those here or in the United States ?
Barbara: Uh, neither - in Canada.
Woman: Oh really?!  So are you, uh, *Canadian* then ?

In Paris near the Opera:
Man: (in a loud voice) WHERE'S THE EMBASSY ?
Me: Any particular embassy ?
Man: (looks at me as though I am an idiot) DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE AMERICAN
     EMBASSY IS ??
Me: Sorry - no idea.
Man: (walks off without further comment)

Rome - a friend of ours (born and brought up in LA - now lives in Toronto)
       is walking briskly (not staring at touristy things) down the street
       with an Italian newspaper under his arm.
Man:  WHERE CAN YA GET A GODDAMN NEWSPAPER IN THIS TOWN ??
Friend: No spika Eengleesh :-)

Tony H.
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:09:09 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Old machines
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 Speaking of old machines - where is giggles?
Doris
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 08:10:20 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Acronyms/Gender
              12 Aug 1992 07:05:02 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>I was also hoping that somebody would reply to Bill's posting on gender --
>because I found it interesting and would like to see the discussion
>continue.  I guess the reason nobody did was that nobody had anything
>to add to the good points Bill made.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

  You're right on that last, Natalie.  I wish Bill would give us the
  classical perspective on things more often.  I also wish he would
  try his hand at "vi veri veniversum vinus vici."    --brad
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