-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:23:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Coeur d?Alene, that is... ;-) It's French...
The Pacific Northwest and southwestern Canada don't claim French as a major language (even if it is an official language for southwestern Canada). About 10 years ago, the three predominant dialects in my area (Portland, OR) was American English, Mandarin, and Canadian French. Now it's American English, American Spanish (which isn't taught in schools, and evidently has significant differences from Spaniard Spanish, which *is* taught in schools (as utterly useless as it may be locally)), and Russian. Near Woodburn, Oregon, the major languages are American Spanish, Russian and Old German (and they're easy to spot from a distance, they dress kinda like Amish or Menonites and *nobody else* has any idea what they're talking about). This came as quite a surprise to me when I was there for KNRK's Big Stink Six when it was at the Estacada Timberbowl...last time I was in Woodburn, everybody living there was either almost Greg Proops style Redneck or the old german community (which wasn't nearly as visible in town then). Local joke is all the rednecks moved to Oregon City or Vancouver, WA. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACJONUzgNqloQMwcRAr0tAJ9LxL8GsOz+FXK0z2VdSe7NJ+p95ACfWqEw UiqTAu8jpsxS9F8i4cfLB/o= =NoRK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
