cybrxkhan
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^I think that's too conservative an estimate.
Altered Maps ΙΓ: To make a map larger than what it maps.
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Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
How drunk is drunk enough to forget the English language?
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
drunk enough to pronounce Welsh in a situation where you've never even seen the language before
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Welsh is the international language of drunks.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
I can vouch for that. In 7th grade (1980-81), we got a new superintendent who came down from Minnesota. That SOB actually had the audacity to go run the rural routes in his Jeep hella early if there was snow and if he could make it, he refused to cancel. It was quite a shock to us kids who were used to getting a snow day if one was able to form a snowball from a decent patch of ground.
Gucumatz
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The next generation of kids will learn the language though and most likely forget their parent's tongue.
And yea the the older you are the harder it is for you to learn a new language or to learn it well, but they often do learn to speak it. It also varies greatly from individual to individual, I have met families where one of the adults in a couple speaks English well and the other doesn't here in the US. One thing human legacy has shown is young people learn the language they need to speak to survive. My first language personally was Spanish, but as I grew up here in the US my Spanish declined and English became my primary language. I speak English and German (the German I learned from my mother when I was a bit older) now better than I do Spanish. My grandparents moved from the countryside to Guatemala City in their early 20s, both speaking little Spanish and mostly only Kaqchikel. My dad and his brothers grew up with Spanish and my grandparents being still fairly young also adjusted to Spanish, to the point where you rarely ever hear them speak Kaqchikel anymore.
Just anecdotal stuff, people able to speak English in England won't ever fall below 90% in the foreseeable future imo.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
That probably sucked.
I remember once when I was in high school, near DC, there was one time we got a decent amount of snow - nothing impressive, but enough to cancel school - so every county in the area, of course, canceled school, except for DC for whatever reason. Parents got so pissed off they started making phone calls and emails or whatever and pestering the DC education authorities and eventually they gave in barely in time.
warpus
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Why shut down school if there is a tiny bit of snow on the ground? Is it because people aren't trained to drive in those conditions and can't handle that tiny amount of snow?
Well it would depend on the district. I went to a district that had a very large rural area. My particular bus route on a good weather day took about an hour and winded around many many miles of narrow gravel roads. And I admit I probably exaggerated when I said a snowball from a decent patch of ground. We probably always needed at least a 3-4" even before Mr. Viking came to town.
A lot of towns further south don't have the infrstructure or the budget to deal with snow. If you rarely get snow, there's not much point into investing in salt and trucks.
And so even with a little snow on the ground, it becomes dangerous for buses, and if the buses can't pick up kids, then its cancelled for everyone.
Also I call BS on that map, my Uni hasn't had a snow day since 2003, and we got a solid foot several times last year!
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
As Joecoolyo said in places where there aren't a lot of snow the infrastructure wasn't made to prepare for snow, so a few inches in one of those areas might be much more dangerous overall compared to, say, several feet in an area that gets blizzards regularly.
It seems accurate for the places I've lived in.
School was closed once for more than 1 week, leading up (and in the end tied to) the Christmas break.. 
Not that it mattered that much, considering that in the Elementary school years the 15+ days of x-mas vacation were more like an eternity. Makes sense when you have to spend 2/3 of each day in school or preparing homework, and that is almost all you know in life.
Not that it mattered that much, considering that in the Elementary school years the 15+ days of x-mas vacation were more like an eternity. Makes sense when you have to spend 2/3 of each day in school or preparing homework, and that is almost all you know in life.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
School was closed once for more than 1 week, leading up (and in the end tied to) the Christmas break..
Bah, that's nothing. My last year of high school I got an entire month off because we got two blizzards back to back. Most snow I'd seen up until then. Not to mention a couple months previously our winter break got extended by a week and a half thanks to an earlier blizzard. Basically, in my senior year of high school, I got about 1.5 months off of school thanks to the blizzards. We lost so many school days they didn't even want to bother making it up.
Gucumatz
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Yea in the south, at least here in NC, the roads become undriveable with even an inch of snow. Not always because of the snow, but because the roads become clogged as people all freak out at the same time, people crash their cars all over the roads due to conditions, etc. Getting stuck in traffic during snow here is annoying - a few years (like 7 I think) ago with just an inch of snow, the local schools couldn't get like a third of students back home due to traffic and many kids ended up having to sleep overnight at their local schools. When something like that happens, parents freak out and the schools play it safe instead and often cancel school often even before the first snowflake drops.
Ok, i'm a citizen of Sealand.
And i have two residences. One in Sealand.
And one in a city that is part of bloody Saxony. Just barely. Where the city ends bloody Saxony ends.
I can virtually see Sealand if i look out the window.
And that city is, like, totally Sealand anyway. Or it should be, anyway.
But, sure, add Swedes all the way to Swedish Mongolia or wherever the heck that is up there. Sure. Why not...
No. I hate the guy who did this. There's no apology.
Edit: After i was done contemplating my misrable existence - in exile [theatricalgesture] - i saw that Brussels situation.
Oh no, he didn't.
And i have two residences. One in Sealand.
And one in a city that is part of bloody Saxony. Just barely. Where the city ends bloody Saxony ends.
I can virtually see Sealand if i look out the window.
And that city is, like, totally Sealand anyway. Or it should be, anyway.
But, sure, add Swedes all the way to Swedish Mongolia or wherever the heck that is up there. Sure. Why not...
No. I hate the guy who did this. There's no apology.
Edit: After i was done contemplating my misrable existence - in exile [theatricalgesture] - i saw that Brussels situation.
Oh no, he didn't.
Hygro
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Definitely when, although I will say the further you get from Holland (north and south), the more "conversation" becomes a generous word.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Apparently Johan made a map. Can't be worse than what's going on in any of the EU series.
Also, for Christ sake, what the hell is Finisterre? All I know is it's a province in Britanny. Again, due to the abovementioned series.
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