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

[Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>]

Kent Paul Dolan wrote:

> "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.


For that matter, there is still a very visible land bridge between
North America and South America. I don't think that works either.


> 
> 
>>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.


Let's see, many English words are derivations of French words.
This seems to be the result of something called the Norman Invasion.

At different time in history both France and the UK have been the
best friend of the United States of America. At other times in history
both countries have been the primary enemies of the United States of
America. Both countries have spent large parts of the 20th century
joining together to fight Germany.

Soon both countries will be joined by a common currency.

Jim Rogers