On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:10:28 EST, Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote: | | | In a message dated 10/29/2005 11:20:12 PM Mountain Standard Time, | hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk writes: | | No the world is going to Life + 70. The USA is as always out of step. | | Everybody's out of step but me. The USA is definitely out of step on Global warming where 90% of scientists agree that it is happening and is caused by man, mainly caused by the USA. I read Scientific American, and it is unbelievable that they do not accept this. The gulf between Scientific American, and the New Scientist (British) is unbelievably ***HUGE***. | Frontier-era means late 18th, all of 19th, and very early 20th century in | the United States. It's actually quite a stereotypical reference, and I have | been told but do not know whether it is true that the two places which most | often did the "free beer" on election day were early Chicago and early San | Francisco. Don't anybody start a flame war with me over that, because I won't | respond. If you disagree you have every right to disagree. But not most English speakers do not know about American stereotypes. In another thread running ATM PG is described as The Worlds Public Library. If so its web sites should be understandable to speakers of the various languages which are grouped as ?English?, Strine, Indian, Queens, American etc. etc. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design"