Divide NOT? (sort of still): Continentalizing the UK (still): Waay OT - America (was: Ada?)

["Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com>]

"Philip Anderson" <pjanderson@freeuk.com> wrote:

Umm, on the basis of land bridges, North America is a part of Asia; I
don't think that works.

> More
> to the point, there is no cultural divide (except in the minds of some
> Little Englanders).

France, with the most impoverished language probably on the planet, some
60,000 words, and kept that way by force of law, as it would otherwise
evolve to catch up with the rest of the planet, sits on one end of the
chunnel, and England, with a 2.5 million word language, sits on the
other.  Granted that's more of a cultural _chasm_ than a cultural
divide,  I must beg to disagree that the two sides have much in common
besides joint and cotemperaneous use of battlefields.

xanthian.


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