Klarinet Archive - Posting 001027.txt from 2000/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Let's get back to ligatures
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:27:37 -0500

From: "redcedar" <redcedar@-----.au>
-----
> From: Topper [mailto:leo_g@-----.com]
> [partial quote]
> Place is getting a bit clickish.... We are in America and we do not speak
> English.
> Cheers, Leo
> [end of quote]
>
> It is rumoured that America is the centre of the universe and home to
God's
> own, but is there really any need to thrust the message down the
collective
> throats of those not so "blessed"?
>
> Perhaps, as a counter to your evident Amero-centricity, you could ask Mark
> Charette for an analysis of the countries of residence of members on this
> list.

This has just _got_ to be one of those days. I know _I_ feel a bit "prickly"
about being an American after some banter earlier today.

With the immediacy of something like the list I also tend to forget that the
people I'm writing to aren't in my own "backyard", so to speak. If I mail a
letter and I have to spend extra because it's going to a different country,
I tend to remember the differences. If I talk to my neighbors (or even my
wife), I forget that many of them aren't native-born to this particular
country. Maybe other get caught up in this same feeling.
'
Cheers,
Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org

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