[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 21:26:23 UTC 2007


On Jul 11, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Robert Horning wrote:

>
> I take it that you havn't spent much time in Dixie (aka the old
> Confederate states of the USA south).  The cultural difference between
> Jackson, Mississippi and San Francisco are about as huge as I'm  
> sure you
> can find from the north to south of Italy.... and you might not  
> even be
> able to have people from the two areas of the USA understand each  
> other
> as well, because they are very different dialects of English to  
> boot.  A
> word of advise if you do end up in Mississippi..... don't go into a  
> bar
> and call a local there a "Yankee".  You might not leave alive.  You
> won't have as much of a problem if you do the same thing in  
> Massachusetts.
> regional is perhaps easier to coordinate.
>
>

Off Topic, but I wouldn't call people in Massachusetts  
"Yankees"....maybe "Red Sox" ;) You'd have better luck in NYC (just  
make sure you're in the right borough first).



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