Whew

[miss_daae]

So I definitely had to take a Merlin/fandom/internet break today and yesterday because I have been doing way too much of that lately and not enough of other more practical uses of my time (like cleaning or making appointments). I mean, I was up at 3:30am on Friday night writing meta for Merlin for two hours about incest. No, I'm not joking. And no

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[an_lagat_glas]

LOL "Frisco." We recently bought a dresser at an antique place and found a postcard in one of the drawers from 1910 or something where the city line just says "City." What is California English, btw?

I hope you will post your Merlin stuff!

[miss_daae]

I'm sure one of my two roommates who are linguistics majors could explain to you much better than I the phonology, morphology, and syntax that differentiates California English from general American English or other regional dialects of the US. All I know is we say some of the vowels different, that people from NorCal like to use "hella" and people from SoCal say "the" in front of the freeways - "the 5," "the 101," "the 405" - it drives me nuts!

Arg, Merlin. That's a work in progress. It kind of started out as something that I was bothering me, then I had to go research it, then I started taking notes, then I just kind of started writing it out. It needs more research and a lot more editing before I'm willing to let anyone see it.

[artic_fox]

I never knew that about San Fransisco. Not that I've ever referred to it was "Frisco" or "San Fran" to be honest, heh. I've only ever been there for a layover at the airport anyway.

[miss_daae]

LOL, I don't think those are really international terms, more of local nicknames. I'm from Sacramento for example, and people from here refer to it as Sac. Or I had a friend at school from a town called Bakersfield and he always called it "Bako." I'm sure places everywhere have names like that.