Re: Humorous Mistake on Goethe Institute Poster


Oliver Cromm <lispamateur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:

Ï "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá

Would this line make sense once you declared what character set was
intended?

He seems to be using trn, so it should be possible for him
to include "Content-Type" and "charset" parameters in the
headers of his posts.


Paul J Kriha <paul.nospam.kriha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Which two of them are from Eastern Europe?

I am confused. Is this a joke of some kind? :-)
From your email address and your name I assume that you
are a European, yet you pretend not to know which countries
are traditionally regarded as part of Western Europe,
Northern Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, and
Eastern Europe.

I don't think I was taught that at school (in the 70s). And it's not
only Central Europe that didn't exist as a concept at that time; I would

The concept existed in literature, especially geographically orientated
literature, since medieval times. You may not have been aware of
it or have heard it in your school but you cannot say it didn't exist.

also hesitate where to put Portugal or Bulgaria, when SW and SE aren't
options.

Perhaps Portugese and Bulgarian natives might have some
reasoned opinion about it. :-)

Central Europe, at least, is indeed problematic.

If you make a rule-of-thumb assumption that Polish is
spoken mostly in Poland, Bulgarian in Bulgaria, Czech
in Czech Republic, and Russian in Russia you can then
easily locate these countries on the map of Europe.

Well, a great many Germans would consider all of these countries
to be in Eastern Europe and would probably be quite surprised to
learn that Poles and Czechs understand themselves as Central
Europeans.

Not only that - sometimes, as a test, I declare on Usenet that Germany
is culturally nearer to Poland and Czechia than to France; you can be
sure that very soon, someone will reject this idea, strongly.

Aber wurde man die ehemalige DDR bzw.Ostdeutschland ein Mitteleuropaisches
Land sagen,oder ein Ost-Europa Land?

In der Zeit des kalten Krieges gehörte die DDR zum Ostblock, aber
"Osteuropa" hätte ich in diesem Fall nicht gesagt. Was die *ehemalige*
DDR betrifft, würde man in viele politische Fettnäpfe treten, wenn man
sie zu einem anderen Teil zählen würde als Westdeutschland.

Agreed.

I'd also say that when one talks about geographical locations
in Europe one shouldn't let the terminology get polluted with
political terms especially not the ones from the Cold War or Nazi eras.
pjk

Is Turkey at least a European country, and can join the EU, or not?

No *geographical* obstacle to that.
--
Oliver C.

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