Subject: Modesto?
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Posted on: 2013-06-05 11:29:00 UTC
I used to live pretty close to there. That is, we lived close ennough that my mom commuted to work there. I think we lived about half an hour to an hour away.
How's Cali, besides the heat? Wow, I really need to get there for a visit, it's been too long.
~DF
I am Australian, although I appear to be the only one left at this point - we used to have several Aussies and at least two Kiwis.
-The other 7/8ths would be American, I guess.
From the South to be more precise. I know there are a few of us Southerners around the PPC.
At least, that's how I identify myself on ethnicity questions. My mom's Brazilian, from Rio, though.
He's got German ancestry, but he's originally from Ohio. I mean German as in back to the Mayflower time period German (My Uncle has this thing about Genealogy).
Interesting. But IMHO, one usually only goes back to one's parents when identifying one's ethnicity. So you'd be correct in saying "American," or at least "half-Brazilian," since as far as anyone is concerned, your father is American.
Usually I do- my Mom's culture is just a little interesting tidbit. Besides, this comes up a lot. You have no idea the size of the Brazilian population in Iowa.
And how does your ancestry end up coming up a lot?
Anglo-Saxon/Irish/Scottish/Russian/Ukrainian-American, to be precise. It's an odd mix.
Well, Norwegian-Irish German-born American citizen, to be precise.
If I'm not mistaken, a lot of Scots were in Canada when the continent was first being settled. I presume the stereotype comes from them.
(I mostly know because I once had Hugh Fraser as Scottish-Canadian before I just made him Scottish-English for accuracy to his historical figure counterpart. There are apparently a lot of Frasers in Canada.)
If Toronto's on the east side of the continent, I may see if I could get myself up there from Massachusetts. Or I could just, yaknow, try to organise/attend a Boston or New York Gathering...
I'm going to be in Boston for most of July. No idea if I'll be able to attend a Gathering, but still. If planning for a Boston Gathering in July happens, then I want to know.
Straight from one of Italy's best ice-cream shops. And Italian ice-cream is the best.
Along with Italian foods, wines, cars, helicopters, and... And if I don't stop right here I'll start getting death stares.
Is actually the Italian word for icecream. Don't tell me that this is another misused Italian term...
Like "confetti". Those are actually sugared almonds, not coloured paper pieces. Those are called "coriandoli". And "pepperoni" is actually "peperoni", with a single t, and means peppers, not sausages!
And we have some pretty good chocolate here too. Yes, if it exists, Italians do it better.
And you can find my mail on the Beta Readers page on the Wiki, in case you don't want to use the Board.
The Italian word ofor "chocolate" is cioccolato, and about ice-cream... if I understood it correctly by mi little research, what you call "gelato" is just one of the various kinds of ice-creams. It's a bit like if you called pasta with an English term and used the Italian term only for spaghetti.
Speaking of that, spaghetti is used right in English.
I think that the English language's approach to loanwords is one of these two:
1) Mug other languages in the back alleys and grab loose vocabulary from their pockets
2) Accumulate phrases from a mixture of grabbing them at garage sales and having them just turn up in drawers and shelves, then when you try to use them you find that you're missing half the pieces and the instruction manual either comes in French, German, and Esperanto, is covered in unidentifiable stains, or was never there in the first place.
I'm near Ottawa! (Going to be living there full time as of this August)
Its about a four hour drive in my experience, probably slower by public transportation.
We could do a mini-gathering here in Israel, where it's so hot and dry that even the green is brown and you get colds from air conditioning.
-Looks at his calender-
The week after the 20th, you say? I shall make it happen. (Good thing about this particular post is that I decide my shifts with another guy.)
As to staying safe... I'm one of the safest places around. Nobody will be shooting at me anytime soon.
Yeah, it's a nifty post. Finished basic training half a year ago. Finished the course about four months ago (Cipher/Technological Deciphering, צפ"ט - צופן פענוח טכנולוגי, in case you're wondering. Not as interesting as it sounds) and got here about two months ago.
The rockets... well, I was lucky I was at Camp 80 for BT and not Nitzanim. A friend of mine was there - and it was when Pillar of Defence rolled around the corner. Not nice.
As to more Israeli Boarders... Unfortunately, no. Let's hope that I will be proven wrong and that there're more than just the two of us.
Not many people hear about the C4I Corps until the army decides to send them there, and there's not a lot of interesting stuff going there anyway. צפ"ט, in fact, was used to be a girls-only course (the male equivalent was צפ"ר, צופן פענוח רשתות - C/ND, Cipher/Network Deciphering).
As to an NDA agreement: I signed two. Well, the same one twice.
Also, new thread? I'm on it.
in DawnFire's long post--and one that I am interested in, BTW. How did you learn your English?
Yeah, 'twas a long-post indeed.
How I learned my English...? Well... back when we had a TV at home, it was British (that's where I found Thunderbirds, BTW). That certainly helped. Add to that a certain natural aptitude for languages, a lot of reading and speaking... and there you have it. Being a computers person also helped, I guess, since the amount of interesting stuff you can find about computers in Hebrew is pretty much nil.
That being said, my English is far from perfect, though I've come a long way; I've recently looked at something I wrote a few years ago, and it wasn't pretty. Full of errors and really stilted-sounding.
Private Des a' yer service, sir.
I am indeed from Israel; I am currently serving as a soldier in the IDF's C4I Corps.
Kudos for noticing the fact that agent!Des speaks Hebrew.
Another Brit here - I come from Oop North meself. :P Not quite the Scottish borders, but what we call the North-West.
No, only kidding - with parents from Leeds and Darlington, I can hardly talk.
hS
And I think we have a couple of other Scandinavians on Board as well.
As in, "the part of Arizona where misery beats down from the skies every June through August."
Don't worry, I can somewhat relate. Modesto stays the exact same temperature in the morning as in the evening during the Summer, and it lasts from June to whenever Fall officially hits in Modesto, so I'm suffering as well.
I'm Filipina, though I don't look like it. It must be due to some foreign blood from my mother's side. I almost always get mistaken for a Japanese/Chinese girl, it's hilarious for my relatives.
(Can't even speak Chinese out of the most basic things I can remember. Little Fokien, almost everything Mandarin. Adapted almost entirely to English, it's easier to use than Tagalog at any rate.)
Anybody else from that neck of the woods? (Pun was intended.)
…but since "upstate" means "north of New York City", I'm actually quite close to the PA border.
And yes. Woods. We has them.
Talk about a small world: I happen to live in NYC! And yes, we in the city do tend to consider anything north of us "upstate," even if it is only Westchester County (the next county north of the Bronx, for those who don't know).
I used to live pretty close to there. That is, we lived close ennough that my mom commuted to work there. I think we lived about half an hour to an hour away.
How's Cali, besides the heat? Wow, I really need to get there for a visit, it's been too long.
~DF
My mom also commutes to work from Modesto.
NorCal is NorCal, what can I say. Although, living in the outer edge of a city owned by a big name wine company (I just know I'm going to spell this wrong, but I think it's Gallow?) is an interesting change of scenery from run-down, drug-infested Ukiah.
And oh, is my old town an eyesore. The only spot of good on it is my old house, and the realtors can't even get it to sell because things are so bad there.
And the worst part is? I spelled his name correctly the first time around.
Here, take my Shoot-Gun of Shotting. It's loaded with magical buckshot just in case.
Can't we just get a mini-blood waterfall and mini-Roxy's Mom/post-scratch Rose to deal with him?
You see, due to his alternate identity as a World One celebrity, he creates a mini-Human, but any mini of Rose or Roxy would create a Homestuck mini, whatever that turns out to be. It would thus be far less capable of defeating the mini version of the High Chaplain of the Jugglefascists. It would probably be a mini-Giclops or a mini-Lil Cal or something. It would be nowhere near his match.
Also, I have no idea where we'd get enough mini-blood to create a waterfall out of it. Well, I have one idea, but it's awful and would require putting a mini species with a powerful healing factor through what essentially amounts to torture, and I will not have that.
We will not become what we are trying to destroy.
...of simply writing up a few mini-Big Goods of that kind where the status quo - that peace reigns and everone's happy - never permanently changes?
I mean, mini-God (aka mini-Morgan Freeman) might be overkill, but...
I don't know. It's one of those ideas you get just after waking up. Better post it now while it still seems intelligent.
By the way, God Man is an actual comic book hero. I think, in all honesty, that he's a troll hero, but he exists. XD
...a few Daedric Princes and the odd alicorn.
And I'm fairly certain my sister has Luna on speed dial.
Team Siblings: ALWAYS PREPARED (When the plot demands it.)
Board might be freezing for a thousand years, though.
Doesn't matter. Saves the energy needed to cool the servers. Hope they're not solar-powered.
Which means DUCK when the cool wave hits, we don't know what they'll do.
Certainly there's some kind of ACME insurance to cover this.
He's got AWESOME CUISINE on his side, I don't think that would work.
It's part of SC's Arsenal. Without it, I can only cover two range types.
(Yes, shotguns can be mid-range weapons, shut up anybody who says otherwise, I own a hunting shotgun IRL, I know this.
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The little jerk is always trying to fight something, might as well let him vent his rage on an evil mini.
Californian, actually, just like Aelin two replies down. I think splendour looks better spelled the British way, though.
-Aila
Although two of my uncles are Russian, my grandmother's from Hungary, my grand-dad was a Pole...and I'm pretty sure my mom's family came in from Austria quite a few generations back.
Genealogy? Do not ask.
California, specifically, but I'm an inveterate Anglophile and tend to use British spellings. And I can do really good accents.
I'm a child of The Corn, though I'm currently in Cowboy country. For those of you who don't speak football, that makes me American. ^^;
I'm in Omaha NE.
and if so, you're currently in Texas. So that leaves that "child of the Corn" part to be translated. Cheese, I'd understand (for non-football fans, "Cheesehead" is a term for fans of the Green Bay Packers), but corn? Please explain.
The mystical land of Cookietopia. Okay, no, not really, I made it up. I'm an American.
...Holy Christ, you're also part-Norwegian?
AWESOME!!!!
Well, I'm an American, so yeah. Also yes, desdendelle is Israeli. In fact, he's on his legally-required military service now.
Don't be fooled by my German username: I'm a second-generation immigrant, borne of two people who came from Cuba. In fact, one of my prospective missions was going to have a Castro joke, but... unfortunately, that was a co-op mission and my cowriter isn't anywhere to be seen.
Shame on me. First I could have sworn that Lily was a Brit (though that's more due to my somehow rememberhing her using British spellings in her missions), and now here you are, saying that you're Cuban. Never judge a book by its cover, eh?
Then again, anyone well-versed in history would have reason to have thought that I was Chinese!
This one British expat thought I had a British accent over the phone, and several Tumblr people thought I came from London, and... yeah.
No, I'm just a huge Anglophile who's been studying British history since Sophomore (well, really Freshman, if you count my getting-into-Hetalia bit) year.
She was even working on the Gdocs fo Multiverse Monitor and other stuff at the same hours I was working there too... and since I live in Italy, that made me think that she was in a similar time zone, and thus a Brit!
You do that on purpose, Lily?
That's me being an insomniac, or possibly just chilling around at 11am here when it's pretty late over there.
you were using British spellings! (Of course, the best thing for me to do would be to reread your missions to be sure, but that's a lot of work just to spot some few variant spellings!)
But if so, why? I'm not going to be quick to chalk it up to force of habit, since I believe that someone exposed to American English since childhood would not so quickly convert to British spellings after only a few years of studying British history...in America.
I recall the quote as something like: "You're American? I thought you were from Northern London or something!"
*sigh* Those were the days, approximatelyayear-and-a-halfago,orsomethinglikethat.
Because near the end of the last sentence, itappearsthatyoustoppedusingyourspacebar,forwhateverreason.
I was trying to make a joke where I was speaking fast in order to cover a rather long sentence without ruining the flow of the one that I was saying already.
Sadly, there's no good way to imply fast speech on the internet.
*sigh*
Actually, your situation is not that hopeless: running words together is a completely viable way of implying fast speech--though (unfortunately) not as universally recognizable as, say, using all caps to symbolize shouting.
It derps out on him when he doesn't want it to.
I use my phone because I currently don't have a laptop that I could work from.
However! This will soon come to an end, now that I've officially graduated from high school.
(Primarily because you really are needing laptops for jobs more and more where I'm living...)
We've got a few Americans, at least - myself included - and I believe there are actually two Israeli PPCers, though I don't remember the second person. IIRC, we also have a few people from the Philippines, or at least we did.
but she's Canadian. So...
So, an American-Canadian-Israeli. Quite the mix of cultures there. But you only gave half the story: your mother's American, but what about your father?
And about the citizenship thing, I'm pretty sure that your parents would have had to fill out a form or two, since in order to be an American citizen by birth, the general rule is that you have to be born in the U.S.
I mentioned already that I am Haitian-American. To be exact, both my parents are from Haiti, but I was born in the USA, so I am an American citizen.
(Since the Haitian constitution forbids double citizenship, I cannot hold dual Haitian and American citizenship.)
As for my username, it was the username that I used on
I mentioned already that I am Haitian-American. To be exact, both my parents are from Haiti, but I was born in the USA, so I am an American citizen.
(Since the Haitian constitution forbids double citizenship, I cannot hold dual Haitian and American citizenship.)
As for my username, it was the username that I used on
Can't believe I missed that. Pretty cool. Have you ever been to Haiti?
Ooh, Neopets! I remember Neopets. I was also on there, once upon a time, although I can't remember if I used DawnFire as a username there.
~DF
But from what I keep hearing from my family, I definitely want to visit one day.
What that last sentence was supposed to read was:
As for my username, it was the username that I used on Neopets; I decided to use that here as well.
And writing from Italy. In fact, if you look at my first missions, you can clearly see that I am much more fluent in English now than back then.
In fact, all my writing projects are in English now - and that's partly because by joining the PPC I had both the occasion and the incentive to keep working on my knowledge of the language.
I want to thank you all for it. Without the PPC, I don't think I would have been able to achieve this level of fluency. Not this fast, at least.
I'm from the GTA, you?
Yeah, you're right with Des.
Also, Austria here. And I think there's some Canadians around, too.
So, are you currently in Austria, or are you Austrian-American? And I'm curious: do you by any chance speak German?
So yes, I speak German. :D
Hallo Welt!
