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Are you surprised that the masses are illogical? :face_with_raised_eyebrow: In case you are, I give you this. Also, we elected a deranged orange man to lead us. :man_facepalming:

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It’s more complicated than just geography though

Kentucky for example is very different then Ohio

Texas is still very much “south” but it’s a very different culture than the south east

Some of the border states vary based on interpretation

Also, stuff like this you don’t get to change after 40-50 years regardless of reasons
 that shits stuck lol

My only exception to all this is Florida
 the tip of the peninsula, is a very different vibe
 like a very tropical New York
 that is NOT the south lol :joy:

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I suggest forgetting direction and simplifying it even further:

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8206

I like it lol

A lot of the north bordering Midwest states are just south Canada

The east is just fiesty english

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Meanwhile, I’m waiting for Amal to launch a mind uploading service


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8208

I’m so glad we have inline Google Translate in Discourse: it’s so useful to understand posts in foreign languages:

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8209

You aren’t wrong but I don’t think it is as simple as literacy levels. The number of times I see people asking about, or blatantly ignoring things written on signs I can’t believe that they are all illiterate, they just don’t read.

For example there is a street corner with a big sign saying “no left turns” and yet about 1 time in 10 I get held up there by someone turning left.

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8210

I agree its a mix of the two. But I’m not shocked to hear American literacy rates are so low.

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8211

The other day I heard a newsreader saying a foreign place name and wondered just how much damage has been done to American pronunciations by the orthographical changes made by Noah Webster.

My thought was that Americans see “OW” on the end of a word and assume it should be pronounced as in cow, thus giving us Glazg -OW. Whereas people from the UK know that spellings are just vague suggestions and so pronounce it glaz-go. (Or if you are local glez-gae)

Given that the Dance troupes “The Cholmondeleys” and"The Featherstonehaughs" are pronounced “The Chumleys” and “The Fanshaws” I don’t assume that any pronunciation is straightforward.

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The one that always bothers me is Americans saying Edinburgh as “Eden-Burg”

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Indeed I was born in Glesgy and raised in Embra.

One year I worked out at a golf open down the coast, on my way there I was on a bus behind some American tourists and we passed through “Musselburgh”. One of them turned to the other and said “Muscle Berg, that’s like Edin Berg, do you think they are related?” I was so tempted to say it is pronounced Borough (burra) and it means Town
 But I didn’t.

Of course just to confuse things Middlesbrough spells it without the first O.

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I pronounce it with a soft “O” , Chomleys, but i’m not from the UK, so now I know how to pronounce correctly thanks :+1:

Interestingly ( to me at least ) about 6 weeks ago, I drove down a “Cholmondeley Ave” and my sat nav even pronounced it “Chomley” / “Chumley” I was quietly impressed by Mrs Garmin, I was expecting a butchering of it, something like “Cha-mon-da-lay”

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8216

I unironically got asked this on Thanksgiving.

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8217

Welcome to retail/food service on holidays.

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8218

Since this happened, I ordered a Halo Scanner direct from the manufacturer with the latest and greatest firmware.

The device left Guernsey on the 18th, and arrived in Helsinki on the 23rd thanks for the incredimazingly shit speed of Royal Mail (they’re not as bad as the Czech post, but close).

And then from the 23rd to the 27th, the parcel essentially sat there at the Finnish customs office. And when they finally sprung into action and released the parcel, that cost me 20.25 euros on a 80.76-euro purchase. That’s 25% on duties + VAT + processing.

So you know what? Fuck Brexit. Fuck brexiteers. What a bunch of fucking idiots
 You’ve ruined your country: I only ever order from the UK when I absolutely have to now. But I’d rather have my left nut crushed in a vise, and I know I’m not the only one. Good job you nitwits :frowning:

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8219

I’ve ordered one of the last ACUs on ksec
 I wonder how much that will be.

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KSEC is great for customer service and all. But I’m afraid to admit the extra cost of customs in terms of money and delivery speed totally killed their attractiveness for me. I’d rather deal with the subpar Lab401 customer service and get my gear quicker and cheaper. I would prefer ordering from KSEC but I won’t because of customs. Sad but true.

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8221

I had some fun with github pages this morning and proudly resent to you isitsoontmyet.com!
A page where you and me can find out if it actually is or is not SOONℱ yet.

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8222

Hey there!!

Thanks for the shout out!! :grin:

I had been insanely busy then abroad with no laptop :sweat_smile:
Now I’m back!! :partying_face:

Yet still insanely busy
 :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

How has everyone been?!?!

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8223

Welcome back bitey teeth!

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