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From: "C. Paul Douglas" <granite@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: A technical question: - Reply
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 14:43:06 -0400
On Wed, 20 Apr 1994, Koert Vynckier wrote:

> Holland is a part of The Netherlands, it's not T.N. (Nederland in Dutch).
> Nederland is a country, Holland isn't.
>
> NightOwl
>
NightOwl, Chill out..do you know how many times I was asked what country
I lived in back in the US, while I was living overseas in europe?? more
than I can count..Not everyone has all that good a grasp of
geography..The way I would handle it was tell whoever had asked that the
State I am from is Texas...and in this was I corrected the person without
scolding them for their lack of knowledge....
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