Discussion: Marie
in: Becks; Becks > 2010-04-09
Apr 10, 2010 1:15 PM
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Clue sheet...eurgh! I have found it's easier to just say words sometimes. I had a bit of a tomato tomato debacle where some girl in Subway told me "We don't have none of those" and I could see them sitting there right in front of us. So now I am occasionally swallowing my pride...
Apr 10, 2010 1:54 PM
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sgb:
Ooh... so do I get to correct your English now, Becky?
I didn't realise 'til I arrived here just how parochial the English can be sometimes, with the assumption that London is the greatest city in the world (I mean, why else would Dick Wittington have gone there) and that everywhere else is somehow smaller or less significant. It's interesting that there are few terms for far-flung places that convey any form of equality: we talk of regions, shires, provinces, colonies and 'other nations'; and imbue all of these with a sense of inferiority. Britain, oh, little Britain...
And the Americans, of course, are all wonderfully open-minded :-).
I didn't realise 'til I arrived here just how parochial the English can be sometimes, with the assumption that London is the greatest city in the world (I mean, why else would Dick Wittington have gone there) and that everywhere else is somehow smaller or less significant. It's interesting that there are few terms for far-flung places that convey any form of equality: we talk of regions, shires, provinces, colonies and 'other nations'; and imbue all of these with a sense of inferiority. Britain, oh, little Britain...
And the Americans, of course, are all wonderfully open-minded :-).
Apr 10, 2010 6:04 PM
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sgb:
Personally, I hated living in London. Maybe that was because I knew it was going to be temporary; maybe because it was a huge, claustrophobic city. At any rate, most of my colleagues were happy paying the earth to live in shoeboxes, crammed in with thousands of sweaty strangers. Very few of them saw the light and moved to nicer places. Many never even left zone two.
When I realise how many people there are who are different from me, it makes me glad that there are cities to keep them in...
When I realise how many people there are who are different from me, it makes me glad that there are cities to keep them in...
Apr 11, 2010 9:48 PM
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I agree with you on the London front; I loathed being stuck there. That's why I got out within 6 months, well that & the minor matter of the job being rather different from what I'd been told it would be, but there you go.
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