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[notyourbroom]

.. mm. Writing short essays is actually sort of difficult now. I'm supposed to frame the "make English the official US language" debate and respond to it and whatnot while not exceeding three pages double-spaced; I'd rather spent at least five pages developing something a bit more eloquent, and indeed, this is a topic broad enough and with a deep enough history that one could, with sufficient time and resources, write an entire book on it. Then again, all I reallly have so far is

That same American who insists upon hearing and seeing nothing but his native English while at home may paradoxically expect to be presented with the same sort of Anglocentric linguistic homogeneity abroad-- tales of the boorish tourist who throws tantrums when not perfectly understood in non-English-speaking nations abound, and draw into sharp focus the supercilious hypocrisy of monolingual pretension.

but.. mm; I'm sleepy [despite a four-point-five hour nap and like eight quantum-hats¹ of caffeine].


¹ I'm not sure of what that is a unit of measurement, but I do know that I want it formally established pretty much right away. Then an abbreviation "Q-hats" could be proposed. Wait, when did I mention Q*Bert? Ah, wait, during Glee Club [months ago], when the conductor was talking about terraced dynamics and showing hand-heights at different levels and saying that we had to jump from one level to the next, and I was all, "So,.. like in Q*Bert?" and people were all "omg STFU n00b." Which also kind of happened during History of the English Language [today] when I guessed that "the AOL language?" was the fastest-growing foreign language in America. eh.

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Re: i am curious

[beanrows.livejournal.com]

heehee, hittite

Related Trivia:
This town, which is two towns over from my hometown, has, I believe, the most Italians per capita in Canada. Whee. :o)

Re: i am curious

[dangerpronered.livejournal.com]

Wow, cool! And it's on the west coast? Interesting! I'd think it would be on the east coast, as it seems more comvenient for Italians to settle there.

Re: i am curious

[notyourbroom.livejournal.com]

Well, BC's fertile valleys are excellent for growing Spaghetti Trees, and early settlers could easily catch whole schools of Pizzafish from the comfort of their gondolas and bake them upon the flat, sun-warmed stones lining the banks of the calm-flowing canals. Surely that's worth crossing a continent for?

Re: i am curious

[dangerpronered.livejournal.com]

Silly Bill! It isn't warm up there, it's Canada, remember?

[marisa-b.livejournal.com]

BC is pretty mild, actually, for Canada. Depends on the specific part of the province, of course, but the southwest corner tends to get almost no snow at all, and it only seldom drops below freezing. This makes me a Canadian who had never experienced winter before coming here to the Upstate. Go figure.

[marisa-b.livejournal.com]

Hey! We don't have any Spaghetti Trees in my part of BC! No fair!

When I get home this summer I'm going to go invade the Interior and steal some of theirs to take back and plant on my island. * crosses arms, indignant *

Re: i am curious

[ivoryminstrel.livejournal.com]

SPAGHETTI TREES.

Sorry. I think I just joygasmed at that beautiful thought.

Re: i am curious

[notyourbroom.livejournal.com]

DAMN YOU LOGGING OFF 1.5 MINUTES BEFORE I GOT HOME I mean err Hi, Kid.

Re: i am curious

[beanrows.livejournal.com]

Just as an aside, it's not on the coast at all...I get nit-picky about that because so many people seem to think that the coastal area is representative of the whole province. Eargh. Sorry. >_< /pedant

O.o I've never thought about it that way, but yeah, the east would seem more convenient...I think the first wave of immigrants was definitely triggered by mining, and subsequent waves by railway construction? There was more stuff to do in the West, I guess.

Re: i am curious

[dangerpronered.livejournal.com]

Well, I meant that if you divided it down the middle, it owuld be on the West half, as opposed to the east half. With my logic, Nevada'd be West Coast too.

Re: i am curious

[beanrows.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see, I see.
(I'm having way too much fun with the < small > tag. And taking up a lot of journalspace...MWAHAHA. :p)

Re: i am curious

[beanrows.livejournal.com]

Or you could listen to Bill, since he seems to be an authority on such wonderful things as Pizzafish...XD

Re: i am curious

[notyourbroom.livejournal.com]

If by "authority" you mean "violent predator," sure.

Re: i am curious

[notyourbroom.livejournal.com]

Hittite is so the coolest language east of the Mississippi. Its consonants are, y'know, more mysteriouser than those of other languages. I respect that.

ee, I'm getting no work done. yay procrastination. c.c