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- From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Subject: Re: World Travel
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.011418.2075@informix.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 01:14:18 GMT
- References: <BxGIuJ.84I@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1992Nov13.001635.4285@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> <1992Nov14.082650.27483@ads.com>
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- In article <1992Nov14.082650.27483@ads.com> henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
- >derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) wrote:
- >
- >->Seeing as most of the people who read the Lonely Planet guides consider
- >->themselves travellers rather than tourists.
- >
- >cute, but it won't work; the people who aren't knowledgeable won't
- >know this distinction.
- >
-
- I remember overhearing a couple of westerners in India explaining to
- an Indian who barely spoke English that they were "travellers", not
- "tourists", and making him repeat it to be sure he understood. They
- were clearly very unhappy to be thought "tourists".
-
- It was more sad than amusing.
-