Go away, morning

[cosmolinguist]

'Obviously you are mistaken!' I told him. (I can't remember why; it isn't important.)

'Hey, you sounded a bit like Kryten¹ there,' Andrew said.

'I do not! That's silly.'

'No, really. You're speaking with more of a British accent, so you sound like him with his British accent trying to sound Canadian.'

'I wasn't trying to sound like anything!'

Even if I do speak Britishly, I still get made fun of. I knew it.

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¹ I suppose I could explain, for the unaware, that Kryten is a character in a great British TV show called Red Dwarf. He's a robot who, for some reason, has a Canadian accent. A bad one. That's all you need to know here.

Comments

[chuck-lw.livejournal.com]

I've read that Kansas was named after the Kansas (Kansa) Indians, and Arkansas was named after the Arkansa Indians, but I also found a reference that they were actually called the Arkaria, which some have speculated to mean that they were the carriers of the Ark of the Covenant.

http://www.roytaylorministries.com/am00101.htm

So you can understand why there might be a knife fight over such a thing.:-)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

:).

It's a diversion from the fascinating point you make, but one of the saddest things I ever read was the 1820 speech given by the Quapaw Indian chief when they were forced to move to OK.

The Quapaws had been allies and appeasers of the anglo expansion, but they were nonetheless forced to pull up stakes and move away form their home. The speech is patient, and insistent, and very sad, about how the folks in Washington DC could force this unjust result.