[quote author=frank link=board=news;num=1091238223;start=15#16 date=10/12/05 at 01:15:07]
I’m probably as much a Dutchman as you are Japanese . I’m from Belgium, born near Antwerp. I live in Flanders, so i’m Belgian. As 5.5+ million other people here, i speak Dutch. I noticed, though, that Anglo-Saxon sources have a preference for calling my native tongue Flemish rather than Dutch.
Groetjes,
Frank
And he’s not the only one either.
So where exactly do you live, Frank?
[quote author=Spiff link=board=news;num=1091238223;start=15#20 date=10/12/05 at 05:43:47]
And he’s not the only one either.
So where exactly do you live, Frank?
I just moved to Hoboken, near Antwerpen. It’s the city where Frank Sinatra was born .
Well New York considers Sydney to not be an Australian version. They try too hard. Melbourne either but the whole idea is that your continent doesn’t really need it. Anymore than you need Singapore, or anyone does. Living in New York, seeing another city aspire to that is just another reason not to visit.
I don’t know that any Australian city actually aspires to be New York as such, anymore than New York would aspire to be any other city, except for perhaps York ( just kidding ). I understood the statement to be which Australian city would play a similar role to Australia that New York plays to America.
But I’m saying that Australia doesn’t need a New York on its coast. I just feel that it would destroy the sense of a continent that’s independent of political influence, which I’ve always seen it to be. I don’t like the influence of Sydney and if I’m alone, well, I’m alone.
I am obviously misunderstanding your point or being obscure in mine. I am not talking about political influence or anything like that. I don’t mean to suggest that Sydney is an outpost for New York in Australia. I could well say that a town with canals is Australia’s Venice, or Ayers Rock is Australia’s Grand Canyon etc. These may be clumsy comparisons but it is not indicating any direct link, political or otherwise, between the two, just that there may be some similar features. I agree that I don’t think Australia needs a New York on its coast nor would Australians want one. New York is fine where it is and Sydney is fine where it is.
Just out of curiosity what do you mean you don’t like the influence of Sydney? I honestly was not aware it really had any influence ( if it does than please do not tell the Sydney folk. They would be unbearable).
Finally Nambour in Queensland, Australia is famous for its Big Pineapple which may be go better with the Big Apple.
And to completely wrap up the "what I meant to say" posts in this thread (sorry, I’ve been working all week and unable to get things accomplished here at the Agora ), when I said "specifically" in my comment about uncronopio and Tasmania, I meant that as an affirmative point of clarification, not as a correcting remark.
Finally Nambour in Queensland, Australia is famous for its Big Pineapple
Now I want to go there. You know what I’m saying, Of course I don’t think Sydney is pushing people around, but if I went there, I’d prefer to go to Darwin, because it would be a trip. In more ways than one. Not that I don’t enjoy opera, but that’s down the street. I’m aching for some wildlife.
[quote author=melissa link=board=news;num=1091238223;start=30#32 date=10/14/05 at 21:41:06]Max!
Now I want to go there. You know what I’m saying, Of course I don’t think Sydney is pushing people around, but if I went there, I’d prefer to go to Darwin, because it would be a trip. In more ways than one. Not that I don’t enjoy opera, but that’s down the street. I’m aching for some wildlife.
unfortunately the greater part of "wildlife" you’re likely to encounter in darwin is two-legged and well-soused in drink :-(
oh, and I believe they may have crocodiles there.
There’s actually a greater abundance of wildlife (of the four-footed, furry kind) in the more temperate southern regions. We also have a distinct lack of crocodiles.
. I’m from Belgium, born near Antwerp. I live in Flanders, so i’m Belgian. As 5.5+ million other people here, i speak Dutch. I noticed, though, that Anglo-Saxon sources have a preference for calling my native tongue Flemish rather than Dutch.
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), when I said "specifically" in my comment about uncronopio and Tasmania, I meant that as an affirmative point of clarification, not as a correcting remark.