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To: quidnunc
"The Canadian way." It almost makes you want to throw up

It's sad, really.

I remember years ago helping a Canadian girl with her college homework. There was a specialized word in the text she didn't understand. She would only use a Canadian dictionary! When I looked I realized her dictionary didn't have the definition. I got out an American Webster's and found the word. You would have thought I was trying to poison her, for the way she reacted.

I pointed out to her that the text was written in the US and it was a specialized word. I never saw anyone put-up such a bizarre resistance to simple learning.

16 posted on 01/06/2005 6:10:36 PM PST by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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To: GVgirl

<< I got out an American Webster's and found the word. You would have thought I was trying to poison her, for the way she reacted.

I pointed out to her that the text was written in the US and it was a specialized word. I never saw anyone put-up such a bizarre resistance to simple learning. >>

I deal with it every day in my [Foreign] travels.

Try the FRench -- or anyone else in and/or from the third world, come to that.

The rest of the world's morbidly envy-motivated, hatred-engined and rage-driven anti-American prejudices have become organic! It ain't the 'Battle of the Bands' we're engaged in.

This one's for keeps.


19 posted on 01/07/2005 2:04:57 PM PST by Brian Allen (ButJesus said, a prophet is not without honour but in his own country and among his own family.)
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