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To: BurbankKarl

This is the second time that have read a newspaper story with the word "village" in the title. Since when do we have villages? These journalists are either nitwits or they figure if they begin calling towns villages it will be the multicultural name for what were once called towns. Is anyone noticing this.


7 posted on 09/08/2005 10:54:10 AM PDT by mindspy
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To: mindspy

Really? I grew up in the Village of Malverne (NY).


8 posted on 09/08/2005 10:55:13 AM PDT by Clemenza (I am Werner Erhard! Worship me or DIE!!!)
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To: mindspy

Nothing wrong with the word "village." It means, in population and development terms, something smaller than a town and with fewer services. We also have "hamlets" in the US.

Generally, people may refer to them all as towns in everyday speech, but there is a difference between them.


9 posted on 09/08/2005 10:58:11 AM PDT by livius
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To: mindspy

"This is the second time that have read a newspaper story with the word "village" in the title. Since when do we have villages?"




Way too sensitive, there, mindspy. We've always had villages. They're nothing more than small towns, mostly unincorporated and without much commerce. Maybe a general store of some kind.

Some communities even term themselves "villages." It's not a bad term.


10 posted on 09/08/2005 10:59:35 AM PDT by MineralMan
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To: mindspy

Its definitely a regional term.

As N.O. calls counties parishes though there is no longer a religious connotation.

In some places every town is a "city".


11 posted on 09/08/2005 11:00:32 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: mindspy
This is the second time that have read a newspaper story with the word "village" in the title. Since when do we have villages?

There were no incorporated towns in Plaquemines Parish. Some of those places could have been accurately described as fishing villages.

13 posted on 09/08/2005 11:02:00 AM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: mindspy

Click the link below for a google search of "Village of"

You'll find lots of small towns that classify themselves as villages...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-32,GGLD:en&q=%22Village+of%22


14 posted on 09/08/2005 11:02:20 AM PDT by MineralMan
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To: mindspy
This is the second time that have read a newspaper story with the word "village" in the title. Since when do we have villages? These journalists are either nitwits or they figure if they begin calling towns villages it will be the multicultural name for what were once called towns. Is anyone noticing this.

I agree. I'm waiting for mention of what happened to the "indigenous peoples" and "village elders" after the great floods came. Did the "village healer" survive?

Weird.

15 posted on 09/08/2005 11:06:12 AM PDT by PLK
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To: mindspy
village denotes size and has nothing to do with multiculturalism. Small communities are commonly called villages and sometimes called hamlets. Culture has nothing to do with it.
16 posted on 09/08/2005 11:06:34 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: mindspy; aculeus; dighton; Lijahsbubbe; martin_fierro
if they begin calling towns villages it will be the multicultural name for what were once called towns

And don't let those townships slip under the radar! "TWP" is globalist code dontcha know...

28 posted on 09/08/2005 12:27:36 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (As it was in the days of NO...)
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To: mindspy
I live in the Village of Skokie. IL.
30 posted on 09/08/2005 12:36:14 PM PDT by Cheburashka
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To: mindspy
You caught that too. Down here we do not have "villages" we have "communities".
For example, the community of Mooreville has a crossroad with a four way stop and 5 or 4 stores. It AIN'T no durn "village"! It is a community.
So there!
31 posted on 09/08/2005 12:49:57 PM PDT by Bar-Face (The Embassy helicopter is warming up.)
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