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Re: Why not...... (was Re: New newsgroup lugnet.football for Football/Soccer)
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:00:35 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richard Parsons writes:
> In lugnet.football, an ernest Nederlander writes:
> > Most countries use the term football... so why not the rest of the world?
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> Excellent idea.
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> For the Netherlands, most countries use the term 'where?'...so why not.......
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> And for American Football, most countries use the term 'bollocks'...so why
> not.......
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> And for Australia, most countries use the word 'backwater'...so why not.......
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> In fact, for a language, most countries choose 'English'...so why not.......
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> And for a public administration model, most countries use a proprietary
> version of nepotism/despotism...so why not.......
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> Hmmm. Not so sure about this approach....... ;-)
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> Maybe its not so bad that we have different ideas about things, and so maybe
> its not so bad that we have different words for things. I'm not entirely
> ready for Australia to become just another state among the United States of
> America. Vive la diffèrence! (ish)
Hear Hear.
>
> Richard
> Still baldly going...
Benjamin Whytcross
bwhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au
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