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WCDT 2036 - 2040, Oct 17th - 21st 2011
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 19 Oct 2011, 02:41 ---Didn't he say something about going to some high end boarding school?
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Yes, but like me, he could easily have been a scholarship kid. Money won't keep up an academic reputtion, they have to import smart kids sometimes.
:laugh: :roll: :-D
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Oct 2011, 06:29 ---Besides, if you're in NorthHampton, wouldn't "the city" be Boston?
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You desert-staters have a fucked up sense of scale.
pwhodges:
In most of the UK, at least among the older generation, saying "I'm going up to town" pretty much always means London.
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Oct 2011, 06:29 ---NorthHampton
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I'm interested to note that in many of the Northamptons (one "h") in the US, there is a parallel usage of "North Hampton" in names of institutions. In the town of Northampton in the UK, there is no such usage that I'm aware of. (Same goes for Southampton.)
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 19 Oct 2011, 06:44 ---
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Oct 2011, 06:29 ---Besides, if you're in NorthHampton, wouldn't "the city" be Boston?
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You desert-staters have a fucked up sense of scale.
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Dude, I'm in west central Pennsylvania. When people go to "The City" around here, it's Pittsburgh. Unless they mean "the Capitol", Harrisburg. If anyone's sense of scale is effed up, it's east coasters New Yorkers...
And my folks live in Massachussetts. "The City" is Boston, to be avoided at all costs...
Soulsynger:
From a foreign standpoint this is an interesting discussion to follow. In Germany we hardly use something like "in die Stadt" (roughly "to the city") unless we already live in it.
"Ich gehe mal in die Stadt." (I'm going into town.) usually means you're going to the central district of the town you live in to visit some stores or go shopping.
From the top of my head I don't know any city in Germany that is not referred to by name...
I always hear of New York being referred to as The Big Apple ... I never would've thought that wasn't canon in America.
(Then again, this is a mutual matter of many misunderstandings. F.e. not every German wears Lederhosen and eats Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut all day. :-D )
... why is Boston to be avoided? I have a friend there I am going to visit next summer... anything I should know? °-o
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