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The disucussion started by dgeigh in Q&A, and our subsequent posts on how we say where we're from made me wonder.
How do you state where you're from?
Me, for example, if I'm talking to somebody from outside of Canada, I'll say I'm from Montreal, Canada. When talking with a Canadian, I'll just say I'm from Montreal. I don't need to state my province, they'll know I'm from Quebec because Montreal is a big city.
Just like people from Moose Jaw don't have to say they're from Saskatchewan or people from Toronto say they're from Ontario.
BUT, somebody from Mont St Michel would have to add Quebec because it's a teeny town nobody but its 250 inhabitants know.
Now, I'd assume that people everywhere do it this way...but from being here at AWAD for many years, I've learned that assuming something like that can be totally wrong.
So, how do you say where you're from? To somebody in your country, and to somebody from out of your country?
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To someone from the UK:
…from Eglwsywrw, Pembrokeshire… yeah, Wales <g>
To someone from the Civilised World™:
…from a little village called Eglwsywrw, on the west coast of the UK
To someone from the USA:
…from Wales: well, yah go to Nu Yoik an make a right. It’s where the sun rises.
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To someone from the USA:
…from Wales: well, yah go to Nu Yoik an make a right. It’s where the sun rises.
The sun rises in the south?
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ya gotsa ta face North to be properly orientatatated ;)
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You din't never say that. Or either that or this Nu Yoik you speak of is some little town in northern Quebec, one. Sounds like a First Nations name, but really more like one in southern Arizona, if you ask me. In which case the sun would be rising in the northwest.
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> So, how do you say where you're from?
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. And orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet. That's my home :-)
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i have it easy, New York.. City... well i live in Queens.
and right now, almost smack dab between the airports.. South of LaG, and North of JFK.
amazingly enough, most people have heard of the place..
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I say, "Vermont".
if I need to go beyond that I say, "in the United States".
formerly known as etaoin...
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> if I need to go beyond that I say, "in the United States".
Yeah, but where is Vermont? - North east coast, right?
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I have it easy: I figure that somewhere around 99% of the civilized world have heard of Kentucky Fried Chicken, so I just say Kentucky to foreigners.
To folks within a radius of, say, 600 miles or so I say Louisville and they seem to know where I mean.
To non-___ender Louisvillians I say either that I live in the __ end of town, or that I live next to ___ park.
To ___enders here in town, I just say the name of my street.
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