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[chaoskitty]

I haven't posted on of these in a long time but I found this very very interesting because I am absolutely fascinated lately by memetics and language as symbols and how that changes not only culturally but more interestingly regionally. It initially started when I first moved to BC and noticed little things. Like a "Case" of beer here is 12 not 24

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I grew up in Vancouver (well, actually a suburb of Vancouver...)

[cloud_atlas]

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks

[jacynda_rocks]

I LOVE this subject! I am an army brat, I lived in missouri for a big chunk of my chilhood, then Georgia, and I have been in Tennessee the longest

[jdquintette]

When I first came to Canada, I had no fucking idea what a 'toque' was. It really confused the hell out of me

For instance...

[jdquintette]

In New Orleans all bat-rooms come equipped with both a terlit and a zinc, in which you can wrench your pantyhose.

[natowelch]

I grew up north of San Diego, spent ten years around Denver, Colorado