CP Time

[Dennis R. Preston]

Larry,

I think this 15 minutes is, in fact, rather precise. It is often
referred to as "Deutsche akademische Rad," the fact that 2:00
lectures begin (precisely) at 2:15. I could be wrong since Aix seems
a little bit more laid-back to me, but I'm sill suspicious.

dInIs






>At 3:23 PM -0600 11/4/04, Patti J. Kurtz wrote:
>>Or like 'Indian time," which is generally used in the west to refer to
>>the casual attitude towards time that Native Americans tend to have.
>>
>>Patti Kurtz
>
>this must indeed be a very general phenomenon.  When I was giving
>talks in Aix-en-Provence (in the south of France) in 1977 I was
>informed that I should allow for "le quart d'heure aixois", the Aix
>Quarter-Hour, encapsulating the idea that everything there can be
>expected to begin 15 minutes after the officially posted time, or by
>implication 15 minutes after it would have started in uptight
>northern places like Paris, London, New York, etc.
>
>Larry
>
>>
>>JMB at STRADLEY.COM wrote:
>>
>>>---------------------- Information from the mail header
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>>>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>>Poster:       "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM>
>>>Subject:      Re: CP Time
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>>>
>>>        "C.P. time" sounds like the more familiar (at least to me)
>>>and perhaps less pejorative "island time," which refers to the
>>>slower pace prevailing on Caribbean islands.
>>>
>>>John Baker
>>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>Dr. Patti J. Kurtz
>>
>>Assistant Professor, English
>>
>>Director of the Writing Center
>>
>>Minot State University
>>
>>Minot, ND 58707
>>
>>
>>
>>Foster: What about our evidence? They've got to take notice of that.
>>
>>
>>
>>Straker: Evidence. What's it going to look like when Henderson claims
>>that we manufactured it, just to get a space clearance program?
>>
>>
>>
>>Foster: But we are RIGHT!
>>
>>
>>
>>Straker: Sometimes, Colonel, that's not quite enough.


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