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Earthport, near Meeya Meefla

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Tim McDaniel

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May 22, 2013, 11:58:55 PM5/22/13
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Oh, look, the Daimoni have gotten around to building Earthport.

http://cheezburger.com/7475071488



Earthport is out of Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality stories:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2066
http://www.fourth-millennium.net/cordwainer-vr/earthport-tower.html

The towers in the photo are actually in Beijing. Earthport is
offshore from Meeya Meefla, one of the few places that retained their
Old Earth name. Write "ee" as "i" and realize it's Miyami, Fla.
(I had to have that explained to me.)

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Dorothy J Heydt

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May 23, 2013, 12:08:29 AM5/23/13
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In article <knk45v$npn$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
Correcting to be polite: Miami.

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Tim McDaniel

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May 23, 2013, 12:19:54 PM5/23/13
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In article <Mn8Gu...@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>In article <knk45v$npn$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
>Tim McDaniel <tm...@panix.com> wrote:
>>The towers in the photo are actually in Beijing. Earthport is
>>offshore from Meeya Meefla, one of the few places that retained their
>>Old Earth name. Write "ee" as "i" and realize it's Miyami, Fla.
>>(I had to have that explained to me.)
>
>Correcting to be polite: Miami.

Meeya Meefla
change all "ee" to "i"
Miya Mifla
change punctuation and capitalization
Miyami, Fla
as stated. The minor change for the modern correct spelling is
obvious.

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Kay Shapero

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May 23, 2013, 10:31:00 PM5/23/13
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In article <knk45v$npn$1...@reader1.panix.com>, tm...@panix.com says...
Same here - I didn't get that until you mentioned it just now. Probably
because I always pronounced it as "e". Cool!

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Kay Shapero
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JRStern

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May 24, 2013, 10:46:55 PM5/24/13
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On Thu, 23 May 2013 03:58:55 +0000 (UTC), tm...@panix.com (Tim
McDaniel) wrote:

>Oh, look, the Daimoni have gotten around to building Earthport.
>
>http://cheezburger.com/7475071488

Looks more like the Jetsons nee Flushing Meadows Worlds Fair.


>
>
>Earthport is out of Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality stories:
>http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2066
>http://www.fourth-millennium.net/cordwainer-vr/earthport-tower.html
>
>The towers in the photo are actually in Beijing. Earthport is
>offshore from Meeya Meefla, one of the few places that retained their
>Old Earth name. Write "ee" as "i" and realize it's Miyami, Fla.
>(I had to have that explained to me.)

Kewl.

J.

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