TIL that some languages apparently have words inherently differentiating one's status as a citizen or resident of the entity versus a member of a particular ethnic or cultural group? I don't quite grasp the whole thing, although I heard the point being made. What's interesting to me is a) that there is such a thing, which seems very revealing of something about a culture that would need such concepts built into the language, and b) that there seem to be people who think it's inaccurate to interpret the word choice as meaningful. Firstly, since languages have all sorts of concepts built into them, many very specific to their primary culture of use, it seems reasonable that such a thing could exist. Not that I would have thought of it before, since I'm not from a culture where that sort of subtlety functions. Secondly, if that is, indeed, the subtlety of the word choices, where one essentially and inherently includes people, and the other excludes, then I'd kind o...
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ReplyDeleteThat (monotonous temperature decrease after sunrise) happened way too many times this winter. Something's definitely doing it wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt's hot a balls here. I had to go to 7-11 for a midnight slurpee just to keep cool. (no air conditioning in this house)
ReplyDeleteYou have 7-11 in Oz? How the hell did that happen? McDonald's I get, they're everywhere, but 7-11...that's just weird.
ReplyDeleteJamie Bowden I think we actually have a very high 7-11 count per capita. In the CBD particularly. Arj Barker did a whole bit when he toured here about how if you regret not grabbing a snack from the 7-11 you just walked past, it's usually faster to just keep walking to the next one rather than turn around.
ReplyDelete(Also, 7-11s have probably become even more popular in recent years. All the supermarkets everywhere stopped doing 24-hour trading. So if you're really desperate for a snack after midnight, 7-11 is the only place open.)
7-11 is the largest chain of konbini (convenience store) in Japan, too.
ReplyDeleteHm. All the restaurants are taco bell, all the 24 hour stores are 7-11?
ReplyDeleteNo taco bells in Australia. Just McDonald's, KFC and Burger King (which was inexplicably renamed to Hungry Jack's).
ReplyDeleteAlso, we haven't started freezing our criminals yet. But we do use the three shells.
Burger King (which was inexplicably renamed to Hungry Jack's)
ReplyDeleteProbably to avoid pissing off the monarchists.
Will Frank You'd be hard pressed to find that many monarchists these days. Most of the surviving ones are probably quite old (my Grandma is probably one).
ReplyDeleteBut there were probably a few more of them about in the 80s, when Hungry Jack's opened here.