Am Dienstag, 22.04.03 um 01:36 Uhr schrieb Robin Lee Powell:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:45:05PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:The 4th place structure is the least easy and clear-cut to fill in, because the "area served by a city" rarely has a name of it own. I have approximated this by saying that the city serves the state it's in, but this is perhaps accurate only for state capitals.Here in the US we have 'counties', which are ve tcadu, and I suspect that may be why tcadu has that place. It certainly was hard to get used to when I moved here.
Aren't counties also political (or at least administrative) units?I think this place structure really becomes useful when you want to make a point about economic relations that don't fit national borders or only span part of that political unit, like a border town that gets much more business from abroad than from the country it belongs to.
Also when I say "mi zvati le veltcadu be fo la xamburg" I don't imply that I am living closer to Hamburg than e.g. Bremen, but that Hamburg is the place where I go when I need to go shopping for stuff you don't get in small towns (even though I might actually be living closer to Bremen).
Bye, Jan. -- Jan Pilgenroeder Theaterstr. 59 52062 Aachen