Re: [TML] Rules for fleshing out balkanized worlds? Bruce Johnson 02 May 2014 22:34 UTC
On May 2, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Timothy Collinson <timothy.collinson@port.ac.uk> wrote: > > My daughter has chosen to go to university down in Cornwall (about 5 > hours drive west of me but not actually that far in miles) and it can > feel like a different country there. Heavy accents, strong sense of > regional identity, their own flag. Even some of the language can be a > bit different. As the old joke goes: “Americans think a hundred years is a long time, Britons think a hundred miles is a long way.” Then again, 5 hours east of me is Texas. Heavy accents, strong sense of identity, their own flag, and the language is a bit different :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs