Hi: Oh yes, I speak very clear American (US variant of English)....it's from growing up halfway between Detroit (cars) and Sarnia (petroleum), near Wallaceburg (soybeans, and a lot of people from Holland).
So I ended up sounding like I am from Michigan (so they told me when I moved to Edmonton years ago, to partake in the oil boom), looking like I came from Holland (you say), and fooling with how to make engines run on stuff from farmland that burns cleaner and doesn't form "blobs" in the bottoms of rivers. But I'm as Canadian as anyone but First Nations folks, which is to say the family's been here since the boats landed in from Ireland and Scotland, fleeing the results of potato monoculture and imperialism, laissez faire economics, indifference, greed and all that. If somebody'd got on the wrong boat, or they'd drawn the lines on the map a few miles further west, I'd be a US citizen, I suppose. Maybe even a Yooper. ( Pass the Cornish pasties and smoked fish, I gotta finish my Stroh's and get up dere by da Soo, there's still 3 weeks of ice fishin' ta go!) On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 10:11 PM, fremontjon wrote: > When I met Ed in Toronto.CA he was speaking a very clear American and > I could understand him perfectly. No hint of French or any other > yooperisms at all. Maybe he did slow down a little so I could > understand. But what he spoke about and his views of life ahead of us > sure made him seem American, or how I wish an American could view > life. Sadly, the US has a ways to go, eh? > > Ed, now that I've drug your name around, I'm just curious, are you > actually Dutch? I've sat in the back pew in a few Dutch ASP churches > and ya'll look the same, no?? > > :) > Sorry for the ofhand, Ed keep up the great work and keep the faith, > Thanks for the blessings! > Jon Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
