From InfoVis Magazine, Mary Czerwinski says "Well, I think that [Information Architecture] is the process of distilling semantic concepts down into reasonably navigable structures, so I agree with Information architects when they say that this process has to be carried out for any website. Then, once you have the semantic structure of the web site, you have to design it and, as a part of that information design, one needs to visualise information for the user in order for meaningful patterns of the data to "pop out" or be easily detectable. These are very different ideas that perhaps all belong as part of one web site's design. I'm not sure about whom is confused with regard to the three concepts, they are quite well defined and all pertain to the design of a web site."

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This morning I got an email from my 79 yr old mother. She is trying to track down something her mother would always say to her and her siblings whenever a family arguement was going on and one of them would pipe up. Her mother would say, with heavy sarcasm, "Another country heard from." My mother has the impression that her mother picked this up from *her* mother.

I have tried the Dictionary of American Regional English, and all of the quotation tomes, sites.

So I just typed in the phrase and here is your comment.

Any idea where the phrase comes from?

My mother also used to use the phrase "another country heard from" in the same situations, with the same exasperated / sarcastic voice. She was born in 1915 in Germany and came to the USA as a refugeee right before World War II. (She is Jewish.) Since she only learned English after arriving here, she must have picked it up in the New York City area, where she lived. I have a feeling that it was a catch-phrase from a radio show -- perhapos the Fred Allen show or something of that sort. Today i found myself writing it and suddenly wondered where it came from, so i did a google on it and found this page. In other words, no answer to the query, but "another country heard from."

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