Things Librarians Think About

Okay, here's a question:

If a person was born in New Zealand, grew up there, married and had kids in the country, and then, after almost thirty years as a New Zealander, moved to Australia where they bought a house, got a job, paid Australian taxes, etc...

If, after moving to Australia they started writing books, which they published through Australian publishing firms and sold largely in Australian bookshops and news agencies...

Would that person be a New Zealand author or an Australian author? And, if you were to have a book display that showcased Australian and New Zealand authors, and you were going to set up this display by having the Australian authors in one area and the New Zealand authors in another area, where would you put the books by that author?

On a related point, if they wrote children's books, and you were going to put together a display of Australian children's books, would you include their works?

Euro-English

I love it when people in Europe translate their own stuff into English.

This was on the skike home page, to answer the question "Where can I skike?" (a subsection under the question "what is to skike?"):

"In Cities not only on asphalt, also on cobblestones. Along stairs and non tightened ground stretch. Out in the open country on forrest ways - if it is allowed. Basically you can learn it allone. Just study the users manual and attached video, what comes along with every skike, carefully and follow the instructions."

"Non tightened ground stretch." You see, you just don't get descriptions like that from native English speakers. Let's not mention the spelling; it will spoil the fun.

I'm thinking of buying the red ones - purely because of the description:

"red - for all who are self confidentand who are able to harmonize eleganze and harmony!"...