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As long as we're splitting frog hairs, put down "alblum and chimley" along with "hot water heater"----(hot water doesn't need a heater), its just water heater. If one wants to make a name for being a real jerk, just go ahead and correct your friends and neighbors in polite conversation.
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One of my past air traffic control students had his own uses for words, and often told his trainees, "That sounds like a good ideal."
I knew a Californian who always said she would drive "down" to Oregon, and then back "up" to San Diego from Portland. The finance guru where I worked before finally retiring said "mute point" at least daily, and would instruct her team to pay overdue accounts "in the rears." Both caused snickering in some situations and long, awkward silences in serious meetings. ------ Edit: Not trying to sound snarky above, and I hope I don't. This thread (to me anyway) is not to claim superiority to anyone else. Smart, skilled people often have quirky habits, including bizarre uses for words, spellings and pronunciations. If my surgeon thinks he's listening to "Batch-man Turner Overdrive," I'm really okay with that. Last edited by tinnitus; 08-14-2020 at 09:48 AM. |
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And that's odd because of how maps are typically oriented with the North at the top?
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Also Pretty strange considering the earth is physically a sphere, and traveling North is ultimately up.
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How is travelling North ultimately up? I can accept that the Earth has an axis about which it rotates, so it makes some sense to figure the axis goes up and down, but it seems to me whether the North or South pole is up is arbitrary.
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When you look at the earth rotating in space (and BTW you hit the nail on the head "the axis") There is only one up direction on that axis, and it ain't the South pole..... Why do you think they call it "Down under"
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My family calls it the “spelling gene” and we don’t have it. We all are sporting doctorates of one type or another but we can’t spell. Go figure. Last edited by Kerbie; 08-16-2020 at 09:03 AM. Reason: Fixed quote. |
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NASA even flipped over the blue marble image to as not to upset people. Have a look at this: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...been-different Quote:
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Na no bias at all, just observation of the orientation of the earth as pictured in the space photo. BTW Australia is called Down Under in my culture . .. the Down Under quip was meant to be primarily humor. ga-day mate. For me North is up and South is down and shall remain , YMMV.. When I am at Times Square personally I go downtown to the Village , and uptown to Harlem, like the Chambers Brothers clarify here
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Did you know it takes more gas to drive North than South? If the Earth had no hills you could pretty much coast all the way to the South Pole. I made that fact up just for you. I'm kind of stunned you don't think calling North "up" is arbitrary, even after hearing it from astrophysicists, but to each his own. I do appreciate the back and forth, thanks. I got some wallpaper for your computer. |
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Somebody had to make up the words that we use all the time. Language didn't just drop down from the trees. I myself made up and am using the word "omniarchy."
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You people are all mad! No matter where you are in the world, when one drops a weight it falls down------proving that the Earth is flat!
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