[PRCo] Highway Speed Limits

Derrick Brashear shadow at dementix.org
Fri Jul 12 01:13:48 EDT 2013


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> There are prejudices everywhere, aren't there.   I remember a waitress in
> Switzerland who could simply not understand a German speaking fluent hoch
> Deutsch … I could understand him but she could not.   I think it was a case
> of he isn't speaking my dialect so I don't give a damn … she may have
> considered him a lesser being because anyone who spoke hoch Deutsche
> instead of Schweizer Deutsche didn't come from her country.
>
> I wonder how the Germans feel about the Americans after more than a half
> century of one to three U. S. divisions encamped in their country?  How
> would we feel if another nation had a military presence in Pittsburgh for
> almost 60 years?   I don't think we need to answer that, do we?
>

http://paesanidipittsburgh.omeka.net/exhibits/show/capturedmemories/francositalianarmy

Looks like about 60 years now :)



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