The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.
Tue, Mar 4, 2008, 4:47am (EST-3) snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com doth burble: The important thing about travel in foreign lands is
No, the important thing about travel in foreign lands is knowing how to say, "Please, where is the toilet?"; and possibly carrying a personal supply of toilet paper. Next most important is knowing how to say, "Thank you.", and saying it.
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Agreed on all counts. You can get splinters from some of the things that pass for TP in some places.
A third one is to know how to order two beers. It makes it real easy to make a friend in an unfamiliar place...
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