"Martin" wrote in message
news:eb11p3d9i9gibmdconr3stt7kdahb2tdec@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:40:56 GMT, "a.spencer3"
wrote:
>
> >
> >"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
> >news:fmo6if215u@news2.newsguy.com...
> >>
> >>
> >> a.spencer3 wrote:
> >>
> >> > "Frank F. Matthews" wrote in message
> >> > news:478cf116$0$18452$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>Go Fig wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>>In article
> >> >>><451c9e45-8ceb-4b58-b79f-4e293f030219@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>,
> >> >>>Iceman wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>>>On Jan 13, 5:08 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
> >> >>>> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>>Iceman wrote:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>>On Jan 11, 10:48 am, "James Silverton"
> >
> >> >>>>>>wrote:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>I have recently listened quite a bit to the BBC News on BBC
> >> >>>>>>>America and it seems to me that many British newsreaders
> >> >>>>>>>pronounce the final vowel as a long e ("ee"), not unaccented as
> >> >>>>>>>in "the", which would be my preference. I wonder if British
> >> >>>>>>>English users have any opinions?
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>>It's a shithole in any dialect.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>Depends upon which part you visit! (As with any other large
> >> >>>>>city, anywhere on Earth.)
> >> >>
> >> >>>>To be fair, I didn't have a car when I visited and tried to use the
> >> >>>>(pathetic) public transport system. And my hotel in "Macarthur
Park"
> >> >>>>was not really in downtown LA like it claimed to be. But as a New
> >> >>>>Yorker I felt that the mass transit sucked and you can't walk
> >> >>>>anywhere. I suspect I only really got to see such a tiny fraction
of
> >> >>>>the city - downtown, Koreatown and Hollywood (which many long-time
LA
> >> >>>>residents would never go to anyway) that I can't really judge it.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Correct, you don't have the info to pass judgement.
> >> >>>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I was also limited in location
> >> > Stuck in Newport Beach area, LA, for two weeks.
> >> > However, I was told so often by locals, so often, that it was one of
the
> >> > best parts of LA.
> >> > In which case you can certainly keep the rest.
> >>
> >> "Best" only if your chosen mode of life is as a "beach bum"!
> >> ("Bum" in its American, not its British usage.)
> >> >
> >
> >The Newport Beachites I met were ridiculously pseudo-cultured, with a
> >terrible Golf Club they really thought was 'it', and million-dollar homes
> >'because it overlooks the canyon' - a dry gulch.
> >It really was a pathetic scene.
>
> and British expats?
> --
Never met one. All home-grown.
Surreyman
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