On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:15:26 GMT, "Lawrence Akutagawa"
wrote:
>
>"Alan S" wrote in message
>news:4bf02358ll117gagcb4je1me0g6d1l55dd@4ax.com...
>
>> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:38:22 GMT, "Lawrence Akutagawa"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>And yet another Aussie who apparently believes that the USA (along with
>>>Canada) is synonymous with the whole wide world...
>>
>> I've got nothing to do with the site or her spam, but as an
>> Aussie who has travelled a little I'm trying to work out how
>> you came to that conclusion about Aussies. If you actually
>> go to the site it does seem global. So is my blog - and the
>> Aussies I met while travelling were in Turkey and Europe.
>
>/snip/
>
>Very simple logically....
>
>a. Said writer is an Aussie, as note her domain address.
Yep.
>b. This newsgroup is rec.travel.usa-canada.
True.
>c. Writer's post is - as you point out - global in scope geographically.
Yep,
>d. So the only conceivable reason for posting here in this newsgroup is
>that the writer sincerely, honestly, without doubt whatsoever believes that
>USA/Canada is indeed global; i.e., the whole wide world.
The fractured logic in that comment is truly breathtaking.
All it said to me was that she had added r.t.u-c to a
probably very long list of r.t. groups to spam. As I'm on
most of the others as well I'm sure I'll find out. I may
have missed it, but I'm not aware of a rec.travel.world or a
rec.travel.global.
>
>Note that my comment pertains to this particular Aussie, as opposed to all
>Aussies.
Well, actually, that's not how I read "And yet another
Aussie". But, considering the logic of your previous
statement I can see how you may have erroneously thought
that.
>While there have been other Aussies posting here about lands other
>than USA and Canda, I'll be the first to admit that there are Aussies (and
>I've personally met some of them) who know where the USA and Canada are
>geographically.
>
I'll leave that; I don't wish to start a transpacific war
right now (ask the next three North Americans you speak to
where the other Georgia is and to name one of it's
neighbouring countries - or just to point to Tasmania on the
map:-)
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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