Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 4/21/2011 12:21, Warp wrote:
> > Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
> >> On 4/21/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
> >>> 26 miles across the sea
> >>> Santa Catalina is waiting for me.
> >>> Santa Catalina, the island of romance.
> >>>
> >>> But, um, 26 miles *from where*?
> >
> >> Los Angelos.
> >
> >    There seems to be no such place. Or is that some kind of local slang?

> No. It's not typing carefully.  You really didn't recognize the name of the 
> second (or first, depending on how you count) biggest city in the USA? 
> Especially given "California" in the original email?

  I guessed you were talking about Los Angeles, but had to double-check
with a quick google search to make sure I wasn't making a wrong assumption.
You never know. There are like five million place names in the US, so
anything is possible.

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On 4/21/2011 14:41, Warp wrote:
>    I guessed you were talking about Los Angeles, but had to double-check
> with a quick google search to make sure I wasn't making a wrong assumption.

That's fair. Just to be clear, I wasn't criticizing. I was honestly 
interested if educated folks in northern europe recognized the name or not.

I've given lectures where I'm trying to tell people where I'm from (back 
when I was in Delaware), and there would be people who hadn't heard of 
Philadelphia or Boston, so you'd have to say "halfway between NYC and 
Washington DC", which most everyone had heard of, at least outside of Asia.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 4/21/2011 14:41, Warp wrote:
> >    I guessed you were talking about Los Angeles, but had to double-check
> > with a quick google search to make sure I wasn't making a wrong assumption.

> That's fair. Just to be clear, I wasn't criticizing. I was honestly 
> interested if educated folks in northern europe recognized the name or not.

  Your film industry has made pretty sure that we know the major coastal
cities there... :P (For some reason non-coastal cities are rarer in
Hollywood movies. Las Vegas and Chicago might be about the only
counter-examples. And even then Chicago is technically speaking a coastal
city, although not to the ocean.)

  (Ironically most Hollywood movies are nowadays filmed in Canada, yet
movies seldom depict Canadian cities, and knowledge about them is pretty
scarce.)

> I've given lectures where I'm trying to tell people where I'm from (back 
> when I was in Delaware), and there would be people who hadn't heard of 
> Philadelphia or Boston, so you'd have to say "halfway between NYC and 
> Washington DC", which most everyone had heard of, at least outside of Asia.

  Btw, is just us who are confused by Washington DC and the state of
Washington being at almost opposite ends of the country?

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On 4/21/2011 15:39, Warp wrote:
>    Your film industry has made pretty sure that we know the major coastal
> cities there...

Hey, San Diego is the sixth biggest city in the country and I think there's 
maybe 2 movies where anything happens here. You should have heard the cheer 
here when the Jurrasic Park dinosaur swam ashore.  (Or was that Godzilla?)

> :P (For some reason non-coastal cities are rarer in
> Hollywood movies.

I'm having trouble thinking of any "major" cities that *aren't* on the coast 
here, besides those you mentioned. I'd actually have to look at a map of 
cities to be reminded of them.

>    Btw, is just us who are confused by Washington DC and the state of
> Washington being at almost opposite ends of the country?

It can get confusing if someone's talking about both or something. People 
here have to distinguish "DC" from "Washington state" if it's not clear, 
yeah. I don't think the geography of it has anything to do with it, tho.

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Le 2011-04-21 19:14, Darren New a écrit :
> On 4/21/2011 15:39, Warp wrote:
>> Your film industry has made pretty sure that we know the major coastal
>> cities there...
>
> Hey, San Diego is the sixth biggest city in the country and I think
> there's maybe 2 movies where anything happens here. You should have
> heard the cheer here when the Jurrasic Park dinosaur swam ashore. (Or
> was that Godzilla?)
>
>> :P (For some reason non-coastal cities are rarer in
>> Hollywood movies.
>
> I'm having trouble thinking of any "major" cities that *aren't* on the
> coast here, besides those you mentioned. I'd actually have to look at a
> map of cities to be reminded of them.

Philadelphia?  Phoenix?  Austin?  St-Louis?  Memphis?  Nashville?

(Honestly don't know how big they are, but I think most people will have 
heard of them, once or twice.)

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On 4/22/2011 8:11, Francois Labreque wrote:
> Philadelphia?

I'd consider that a coastal city, almost.

 > Phoenix? Austin?

Yeah, OK. Dallas and maybe Reno, too. A few cities in the south west would 
count.

> St-Louis? Memphis? Nashville?

Kind of small. Saint Louis is probably the biggest of them. The others are 
only well known because famous performers came from there.

But yeah, as I said, I would have to think about it to come up with those as 
"major" cities.

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On 4/22/2011 8:59, Darren New wrote:
> Yeah, OK. Dallas and maybe Reno, too. A few cities in the south west would
> count.

Actually, Boulder and Denver spring to mind as well, both of which are way 
up in the mountains (and pretty muck known for that fact, as in skiing).

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On 21/04/2011 10:41 PM, Warp wrote:

>    I guessed you were talking about Los Angeles, but had to double-check
> with a quick google search to make sure I wasn't making a wrong assumption.
> You never know. There are like five million place names in the US, so
> anything is possible.

Apparently there's a city named "Toast"...

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On 4/23/2011 1:43, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 21/04/2011 10:41 PM, Warp wrote:
>
>> I guessed you were talking about Los Angeles, but had to double-check
>> with a quick google search to make sure I wasn't making a wrong assumption.
>> You never know. There are like five million place names in the US, so
>> anything is possible.
>
> Apparently there's a city named "Toast"...

That's not even one of the odd ones. We have Hell, we have Intercourse about 
30 miles from Blue Balls. We have cities with welsh names I grew up 30 miles 
from that I don't even remember how to spell. And that's all just in 
Pennsylvania.

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Le 2011/04/23 12:33, Darren New a écrit :
> On 4/23/2011 1:43, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> On 21/04/2011 10:41 PM, Warp wrote:
>>
>>> I guessed you were talking about Los Angeles, but had to double-check
>>> with a quick google search to make sure I wasn't making a wrong
>>> assumption.
>>> You never know. There are like five million place names in the US, so
>>> anything is possible.
>>
>> Apparently there's a city named "Toast"...
>
> That's not even one of the odd ones. We have Hell, we have Intercourse
> about 30 miles from Blue Balls. We have cities with welsh names I grew
> up 30 miles from that I don't even remember how to spell. And that's all
> just in Pennsylvania.
>

There are about 50 cities named Y in one country. Who can tell what 
country it is? They are diferenced by ther administrative regions.


Alain

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