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#61977 03/22/02 01:28 AM
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countries where English is a first language, as well as from Australia
Ooh, Max--you'd better come visit me in a big hurry!


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I can't leave this post languishing all alone here...

Any ideas why no boks

They're all out getting ready to give the Waughless Aussie one day side a thrashing tonight. But I hope not...

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Great question, Max! I've been wondering a lot about the absence of South Africans particularly. Not just here, but I don't think I've met one SA on any board I've been involved with...and they are one of the largest English speaking countries (population-wise) for the last couple hundred years or so (...am I right about this?).


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good numbers from most countries where English is a first language, as well as from Australia

Hey! What about USns?


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They are here on the NH Seacoast! A few, anyway.
As I was registering my car at the Town Clerk's office in early February, I met a very pleasant South African couple who had just bought a house in our little town - they were registering their cars, too!
And in the same week I met a lovely young South African gal who has taken a job as a cashier in our local supermarket.
Next time I see them around town, I'll give them the wordsmith.org address.


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I strongly suspect AWAD is too risqué for the Sethefrican government, and is therefore banned. Last year I saw a copy of a S.A. "girlie" magazine which could have easily passed as the swimsuit issue of Good Housekeeping or something.


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Consider the Board's demographics for a moment....

* English as a first (and often only) language

* From monocultural (OK Canadians I'm not forgetting you - just thinking aloud), often anglo-saxon dominated countries

* From places with a high level of PC and internet account ownership

Guess I'm trying to say it's a cultural thing and, on this flimsy basis, I reckon the representative country ratios are about right. Admittedly there should be 1 or 2 boks if I'm right, but I'm not surprised that there's not.

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Back to the representative ratios thing....

Kiwiland - what - 3 or 4 million people?? (wild guess)

Oz - around 17-18 million

USA - (another wild guess) 270 million?

Assuming 2 regular Kiwi posters (including one who's abroad I believe - which just goes to show that WHERE one is residing now is irrelevant), the ratios give us a theoretical 12 Aussies and 180 USN's. Looking at the real numbers of the latter two groups the notion works for me.

To have 2 boks there'd have to be as many "British" South Africans as there are "British" Kiwis.

As you've probably all gathered, the world's population stats aren't my strong suit, but I have a feeling that there's probably less than 3 million of them - anywhere???????

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