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Re: A Brave New World
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 23 Jul 2001 01:04:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jason J. Railton writes:
> It does occur to me that opinion on artefacts of a foreign culture can
> differ considerably to those in its country of origin. That the above is a
> remarkable work to you in the US, but not so great here, is one such
> example. Another would be that you probably think Dick Van Dyke did a
> really good Cockney Accent... :-)*
I'm willing to go with "really funny". But since I've had the "privilege" of
riding in a taxi driven by a Cockney I know that for the accent to be even
close to correct it has to be completely unintelligible to an American.
> Anyway, what's this about 'civics' class - you've mentioned it twice now.
> What is it?
It's a generic term for classes that educate one on how government works, in
particular one's own government. In my schooling I got my civics from
History, Government, Political Science and other classes (at various points)
but I never actually had a "civics" class so named..
I'm amazed at how ignorant we Americans can be about so many many things.
Not me, of course(1) but other Americans... The bits that you see on the
Tonight Show where Leno interviews people and they can't name things like
how many states we have, or whether Ontario is a state or not, etc. are
downright scary.
1 - :-)
++Lar
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| (...) And up until then, you assumed this trait was limited to cabbies in NYC? (Hey - I'm only taking the line I've been fed here). P.S. to everyone else - not everyone in the UK has a cockney accent either. (...) Oh, right. We group geography and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) He didn't appear to have any particularly heartfelt national allegiance from that bio. Now, I'm fairly sure I know what you mean by 'Googling', but somehow the expression still worries me. :-)* (...) I might well do. There wasn't much (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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