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Go read any of Dorothy Sayer's Peter Wimsey novels --- not only are they excellent, but they're an interesting insight into upper-class cultureof the 1920s. The main character says this a lot.
Says what, though? I'm just looking for a single sentence that demonstrates the particular usage.
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-busman/sayers-busman-0...
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He's not right. If you discount China as a superpower, then you discount a country that could single-handedly throw the entire world into a state of political, economic, and military chaos overnight. Defining power as military-only is as naîve as defining it as male-only or violence-only or sword-only. You are right. One should take care defining a word so narrowly that it can only apply to one thing. If "superpower"…
Look, you eggheads can whine about China's economy all you want, fact is, "power projection"/"force projection" is a _military term_ for the ability to assert military force in a given part of the world in a short period of time. You can argue about _that_ being US-centric if you want, and maybe you should, because most accountings of that metric have the US far ahead of the rest of the world.
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Anyway, the military is one way of projecting force and power. It's also the most obvious way. But to say it's the only way, or the only way that counts, is very naive.
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Says what, though? I'm just looking for a single sentence that demonstrates the particular usage.
Search this for 'Town': http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-busman/sayers-busman-0...
"On the way up to Town..."
"We started back to Town..."
"I'd come up to Town one morning..."
The article doesn't make this obvious, but the Michelin Guide just expanded into Singapore this year. Singapore has some amazing food, and the hawker stalls are no exception. If anything they exceed far fancier restaurants with their focus and authenticity. But as far as this being news or worthy of HN goes, this just seems like shameless corporate propaganda, even the video accompanying the article is entirely produ…
Suggestions for delicious street food in Europe? I travel to Europe pretty often and consider myself quite the glutton but have yet to experience good street food (great restaurants, yes, but not street food).
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Not quite. London is clearly a city and referred to as such, unless you're someone in high society, in which case it is just 'Town'.
> unless you're someone in high society, in which case it is just 'Town' Please give us an example of this usage.
> Only obnoxious wankers from London will, small minded people [...] will also talk about 'their little house in the country' when they mean it is barely on the outskirts of a city!
As somebody from the true North (with family originating in the North of Scotland) the way people refer to places always intrigues me. I once had a friend who referred to Southport (population 90k), where he grew up, as a small town.
I think most people don't actually have a real concept of the hamlet -> village -> town -> city relationship and so the words are easily repurposed. However I do not think doing this is somehow bad, or incorrect.
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> unless you're someone in high society, in which case it is just 'Town' Please give us an example of this usage.
I just asked a member of high society (my current employer) as to whether 'Town' is used to refer to London. His reply was exemplary: > Only obnoxious wankers from London will, small minded people [...] will also talk about 'their little house in the country' when they mean it is barely on the outskirts of a city! As somebody from the true North (with family originating in the North of Scotland) the way people refer…
- "I'm going into town."
- "Let's meet in town."
- "Is there anything going on in town tonight?"
When I lived in the south-east of Ireland, "town" referred to the central business district of the nearby city of 50k inhabitants. When I lived in Dublin, "town" was Dublin city centre. And if I lived in or near London, "town" would refer to areas of central London.
It really has nothing to do with whether the place qualifies as a village, town, city or what have you.
* > Incredibly, the 51-year-old, who works 17 hours a day* Could anyone comment on if this is an exaggeration? After commuting plus basic life tasks like bathing etc, this would allow him for a realistic maximum of 5 hours of sleep a day. And that is optimistic as likely this results in about 4 hours a day. It seems like the story of a person who has gone 35 years on 4 hours of sleep a day is possibly more interestin…
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One shouldn't forget that the Guide Michelin started as (or maybe still is?) a content marketing strategy for the tire manufacturer Michelin! The original idea (~100 years ago!) was to boost demand for cars and tires in general, and what better way to do that than to provide a list of amazing places you'll only get to visit as a motorized person.
The guide was made because the founder of Michelin liked to travel and liked to eat. Over time it grew into an actual product. Rail is well established in Europe. You don't necessarily need a car to visit any of these places
> There once was a time when people had to be convinced that a car was useful. That was the situation in 1895, when brothers Edouard and Andre Michelin developed a new design for a car tire...
> First published in 1900, the guide’s 399 pages contained all the information drivers needed to “go touring” through French towns and cities. Only restaurants attached to hotels were included, and they were listed rather than carefully rated.
1. http://priceonomics.com/why-does-a-tire-company-publish-the-...
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> considers-self-Chinese, can't-even-properly-speak-Mandarin i don't think true ethnic chinese speak mandarin. that language is something that was only recently (in the grand span of chinese history) imposed upon the rest of china by a bunch of mandarins in Peking. in fact if you look at the chinese diaspora in overseas chinatowns, the predominant language might be something like cantonese. these people have avoided…
Yes, what you say is true, which is the point: these people are multi-generational isolates. Therefore, from a mainland Chinese perspective, they are considered less Chinese, and their tastes (culinary or otherwise) unrepresentative. It's like, if you had an Italian grandfather you never met, never having visited Italy and literally unable to speak any Italian, you visit Sicily once on holiday, pick up a few words, r…
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> considers-self-Chinese, can't-even-properly-speak-Mandarin i don't think true ethnic chinese speak mandarin. that language is something that was only recently (in the grand span of chinese history) imposed upon the rest of china by a bunch of mandarins in Peking. in fact if you look at the chinese diaspora in overseas chinatowns, the predominant language might be something like cantonese. these people have avoided…
Yes, what you say is true, which is the point: these people are multi-generational isolates. Therefore, from a mainland Chinese perspective, they are considered less Chinese, and their tastes (culinary or otherwise) unrepresentative. It's like, if you had an Italian grandfather you never met, never having visited Italy and literally unable to speak any Italian, you visit Sicily once on holiday, pick up a few words, r…
Also, try telling the Taiwanese that they're "less Chinese" because they don't write simplified script.