With Apologies To Those Who Are Sick Of The Election. But, Man, Ukuleles.

[rionaleonhart]

To the three persons from my English Language course who came up to me on the train platform and allowed me to join their conversation: you won't see this, but I was feeling terribly lonely after the seminar, and you are the reason I wasn't in tears on my journey back from campus today. Thank you so much; you have no idea how much you helped me

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[wolfy_writing]

Everytime someone in the UK says Birmingham, I think "Alabama? No, the other one!" Which is why I nearly jumped in and went "Okay, that really is a touch excessive during exams."

It's hilariously confusing, although it does explain Richard Hammond's intensive fondness for pickup trucks. (They reran the America special as part of a four hour Top Gear marathon last night BBC American; it was awesome!)

[rionaleonhart]

Hee! No, Alabama is a tiny bit farther than I'm willing to go for a weekend during exam season. (BE MORE CREATIVE WITH YOUR PLACE NAMES, AMERICA. I WAS VERY CONFUSED WHEN I SAW AN AMERICAN SAY SHE LIVED NEAR 'DURHAM' TODAY. (How would you pronounce that, by the way? Over here, it'd be 'Durrum'.) AND FOUR STATES BEGINNING WITH 'NEW' IS TOO MANY.)

[wolfy_writing]

I'm not from anywhere near Durham (I imagine you can guess from the envelopes I sent where I'm actually from), but where I'm from we'd say "Duram." Actual Southerners don't say things the way I do.

And yes, New Mexico, New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey need better names. Especially the ones that are in New England.

Where I'm from, all the names lead to long linguistic arguments about whether they're derived from local Native American languages, or actually French. No one knows.

[vzg]

We are creative! We have Hell, Intercourse, and Nothing.

[captlebubbles]

I know what you mean. When I saw on a list that TGLive was coming to Dublin, I nearly sprained something freaking out until I remembered- oh, yeah, the other one. In Ireland.

And I constantly have to add 'The state, not the country' when telling people where I'm at.