Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 02:05:48PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:46:03 +1000
> Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
>
> > "North Holland" (Noord Holland) and "South Holland" (Zuid Holland) are
> > two provinces of the Netherlands, the people in those provinces tend
> > to not mind the entire country being mis-named, while people who live
> > in other provinces are more interested in correcting it.
> >
> > Below is a URL containing a map of the provinces of the Netherlands,
> > it was the first result that google returned...
> >
> > http://www.coffeeshop.freeuk.com/General/Provinces.html
>
> The first that turned up when googling for 'Netherlands province', hey?
> Well that reinforces that other well known misconception about
> Holland, it's all about marijuana and mushrooms ;)
Ahum, s/Holland/the Netherlands/
Damn Hollanders (= people from Holland, some periferic western part of
the Netherlands...)
--Jeroen, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Who prefers that Dutch people call the country by its true name (be it
translated to English)
--
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357)
http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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