The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks
the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual
space-feeling because of different village plans and different
landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for
you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.
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Tue, Mar 4, 2008, 4:47am (EST-3) [email protected] doth burble:
The important thing about travel in foreign lands is <snip of babble>
No, the important thing about travel in foreign lands is knowing
how to say, "Please, where is the toilet?"; and possibly carrying a
personal supply of toilet paper. Next most important is knowing how to
say, "Thank you.", and saying it.
JOAT
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> No, the important thing about travel in foreign lands is knowing
> how to say, "Please, where is the toilet?"; and possibly carrying a
> personal supply of toilet paper. Next most important is knowing how to
> say, "Thank you.", and saying it.
>
>
>
> JOAT
Agreed on all counts. You can get splinters from some of the things that
pass for TP in some places.
A third one is to know how to order two beers. It makes it real easy to
make a friend in an unfamiliar place...
--
Lloyd Baker