Chat Script - Calling Names - Where You From? -

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Rita Winston <catlady at w...> wrote:
> I recollect having an entirely different problem with that question.
> Such as, when I was living in New York City and went to a science
> fiction convention in Boston and --- "Hi, what's your name, 
where're you
> from?" is just small talk, but I was very confused whether to answer
> "Los Angeles" (my home town, the answer to that question when 
someone
> asked it in NYC), or "New York" (uncomfortably false, but far more
> relevant for arranging car pools home), or "Inwood, that's in 
northern
> Manhattan".


Heheheh... I was in Japan years ago visiting a friend of mine whose 
family is a very, very old family that could trace itself back eons. 
At one point someone who was with us asked my friend where she was 
from. She replied "Tokyo." Then her mother cut in and scolded 
her, "Michiko! That is not correct. Our family has only lived in 
Tokyo for 70 years!"


--Suzanne