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Article #2840Re: Northern/Southern Cal linguistic split
From: Mark Slagle
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 07:25
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 07:25
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In article <2ov974$63n@lll-winken.llnl.gov> ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi) writes: > In article <isisCoBB6E.EGy@netcom.com> isis@netcom.com (Mike > Cohen) writes: >> I don't drive (I did learn to drive when I moved here 6 years >> ago, but I found driving such a hellish experience that I >> quickly gave it up). I never felt that my life was in danger >> crossing the street in NY as I always do here. Get fun down on purpose, get run down by accident. What's the difference? > In my experience, the North American city with the worst > drivers is Boston. Without a doubt, hands down worst. NY is hectic, but the drivers generally hold out for a crack of daylight before changing course. In Boston they just do it and expect everyone else to get out of their way. Only city in the country where it's not rare to see someone driving on the sidewalk to get by traffic and around a corner sooner. =Mark -- ---- Mark E. Slagle PO Box 61059 slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com Sunnyvale, CA 94088 408-756-0895 USA
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107d03,3991695550f96f40 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,3991695550f96f40 X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,3991695550f96f40 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-04-21 00:25:01 PST Newsgroups: sci.lang,la.general,ba.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!butch!slagle From: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle) Subject: Re: Northern/Southern Cal linguistic split In-Reply-To: ed@wente.llnl.gov's message of 19 Apr 1994 00:39:00 GMT Message-ID: <SLAGLE.94Apr20232501@sgi523.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com> Sender: news@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com Reply-To: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com Organization: You wouldn't ask this if you'd seen my desk. References: <isisCo9FCL.KJJ@netcom.com> <2ok7mm$9da@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com> <isisCoBB6E.EGy@netcom.com> <2ov974$63n@lll-winken.llnl.gov> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 07:25:01 GMT Lines: 29