[PRCo] Re: Trolleys

[Harold G.]

Fred and all.    There is high german and low german.
Prussian and swiss..

In France you have French people but also people
from Normandy. Brittany, Alsacce, Basque and Catalan.
But one country basically French.  I visited the French
Navy base at Brest once and they were all blond!  I
was taken on a French sub and visted the ex German pens.
Quite a day..

In Canada not every one speaks French altho govt people are supposed to.
And that French is not French French!

In Northern Maine we have French speaking people,  In
Louisiana we have cajon.  Real Southerners are really
differemnt...honey child!

And then we have politicians in the administration who
speak double talk.   My best period with politicians was
the l960's when Penna had Gov Lawrence (D) and Gov
Scranton and Gov Shafer (R).  They did not shake up
the state, supported the formation of PennDOT and
transit.  I had very close experiences with Lawrence
and Shafer.  Both good, no hate like Washington vs
Transit.   While we had new Adjutant Generals in
the National Guard from each, we had the same Deputy
General Snyder who ran the place.  (JohnSwindler, he was
Bills father in law)  And the new Adjiutant Generals were
more geographic rather than political.  Gen White from
Phila, Gen Hay from Pittsburgh.

In no way would thay have allowed the recent transit
funding disgrace.

Some day we will recognize the lies we are being fold
about fiscal responsibility.

Harold Geissenheimer

Harold Geissenheimer

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:43 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Trolleys


>Jabs now and then can be fun ... it lets you know who is listening or
reading.  I've been told that
>Mexican Spanish is different from Puerto Rican Spanish and considerably
different from Castillian Spanish.
>
>And the Canadians and most of us in the United States  don't speak English,
nor do they speak the same
>dialect of it.
>
>That does not strike me as being at all strange.  Most European languages
have many dialects.  I think I
>was once told there were 35 different versions of French.  Dick Lloyd used
to kibitz me about the night in
>a home near Munich where I looked at him and asked, "What are they saying?"
While I've lost a lot of my
>German since then, I could understand a lot of what was being said in the
Hannover area.  But I could not
>understand southen Bavarian German.  The Swiss German is so far out there
that it is hard to even
>recognize as being German.
>
>Of course none of this has anything to do with Boris's original commentary
about colored destination
>signs.  And we did a lot of that too over the years.  Baltimore, for
example, colored clerestory glass to
>correspond with different routes to enable immigrants to find the right
car.  And those problems have not
>gone away nor will they ... I live in a county that is trilingual.
>
>AProchek at aol.com wrote:
>
>> The Mexicans don't understand Spanish either?
>>
>> Oh I am terrible!  Please accept my apologies, I just couldn't resist!
No permanent offense intended.
>
>
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