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well, there are over 2100 members now, I’ve realised - even though the "1600 members" has been dragged over to another thread.
However, I don’t know of any way to tell how many different countries or languages are represented by that membership. Many of the members speak several languages fluently, while some of us struggle with a second or third language.
I will point out that many members never have/never do post. I think there would be less than 100 regular, current participants. There may be more "lurkers".
As for myself, I am the current "token" Australian participant, which unfortunately puts me out of phase with most of the other regulars.
Also Australian, however Azh definitely has the token Australian covered. I will have to aim for the back up token Australian (although from memory uncropio -apologies for misspelling of said name was also from the antipodes).
[quote author=Maximillian link=board=news;num=1091238223;start=0#4 date=10/10/05 at 21:08:25]Also Australian, however Azh definitely has the token Australian covered. I will have to aim for the back up token Australian (although from memory uncropio -apologies for misspelling of said name was also from the antipodes).
Max - that’s very cool!
I no longer feel tokenised.
as for "uncropio" ... I don’t recognise the nick, so I’m guessing he/she is no longer participating.
Azh
(from Melbourne. The real one. Not the one in Scotland, nor the one in Florida)
[quote author=gailr link=board=news;num=1091238223;start=0#6 date=10/10/05 at 21:42:30]You only need to rustle up a couple more and you’ve got a band, kids… :)
and here I was expecting that to be a reference to INXS.
Tasmania is quite a bit closer to the mainland of Australia than Hawaii is to the US mainland. Actually people living in Tasmania would be geographically closer to azhreia in Melbourne than I am ( in North Queensland). It is beautiful down there though and I am sure Tim would definitely enjoy it, especially when all the boats come into the harbour in Hobart after the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
( J-22-M - disregard whatever else you hear from azhreia - Brisbane is Australia’s New York)
[quote author=J_22_M link=board=news;num=1091238223;start=0#11 date=10/11/05 at 19:59:38]Ha. I dunno, is it? And, what would be your ny, Sydney, or is our NY your Sydney….
ha… pondering… tokens…ha
Now there you’re definitely asking the wrong person
Sydneysiders tend to view themselves and their town as a cut above the rest of us. Largely, I suspect, because it was the first large-scale European settlemnt.
We Melbournites like to remind Sydneysiders that our first National Parliament was based *here*, and not there. And up until last week, we revelled in our "World’s Most Liveable City" title, taking the opportunity to rub Sydney’s nose in it wherever possible. Melbournites will also point out that our climate is more agreeable, with more days of actual sunshine than Sydney.
There is _considerable_ rivalry between Melbourne and Sydney in all things, large and small.
So, no. I wouldn’t consider Sydney to be our New York.
[quote author=Katy link=board=news;num=1091238223;start=0#13 date=10/11/05 at 23:06:26]I was just saying that Tasmania is Australia, as Azh figured she was the lone representative, she is not, Any more that Frank is the only Dutchman. We do have Jonah, or did….
Clearly I didn’t expect to be the _only_ Australian member, I was thinking more along the lines of the only currently participating Australian, since I seem to be the one who offers most of the Australian point-of-view and usage messages.
<<<I was just saying that Tasmania is Australia, as Azh figured she was the lone representative, she is not, Any more that Frank is the only Dutchman. We do have Jonah, or did…. <<<
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.
Just wanted to clarify something. When I said disregard what you hear from azhreia in my previous post I of course didn’t mean generally, just as a reference to whether Sydney was Australia’s New York. I knew Sydney people would say they are the most important city in Australia, Melbournians would disagree, when in reality everyone else would know that whilst the most important city in Australia may be up for argument it most certainly is located in Queensland ( probably north of the Tropic of Capricorn).
[quote author=Maximillian link=board=news;num=1091238223;start=15#18 date=10/12/05 at 03:10:01]Just wanted to clarify something. When I said disregard what you hear from azhreia in my previous post I of course didn’t mean generally, just as a reference to whether Sydney was Australia’s New York. I knew Sydney people would say they are the most important city in Australia, Melbournians would disagree, when in reality everyone else would know that whilst the most important city in Australia may be up for argument it most certainly is located in Queensland ( probably north of the Tropic of Capricorn).
Max, you FNQers are a funny lot
And I say that with deep love and respect, since my only brother has lived in QLD (and mostly central QLD at that) for most of the last 30 years.
. 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.