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Idjit

HOPEFUL

I'm lost

MAY 22, 2006 08:59 AM

Salome said:
Ask your average American the same thing.

Dude, seriously. Most Americans who (don't live near it) will not be able to tell you where Missouri is.

Cairo

SUICIDEGIRL

Maryland, USA

MAY 22, 2006 10:25 AM

Maude said:
i don't think it's hard to remember where they are if you're an American. not knowing means you've either never seen a map or you're just lazy and ignorant.

Not necessarily true. I'm neither lazy nor ignorant; I just suck at geography. I mean I really suck. I had a puzzle that was a map of the U.S. as a child. I studied it constantly when we had to memorize the locations of the states and their capitals for school, my mom quizzed me at home every day because she knew I struggled with geography, and I still miserably failed that test.

Rote memorization is not my friend. If I can't apply the information, I can't retain it. Because of that, the subjects of history and geography have been my Kryptonite throughout my entire academic career.

billyfivecrows

Roswell, GA

July 2005

MAY 22, 2006 10:30 AM

edith said:
i have no expectations of how people from maine are supposed to sound. i didn't even know there was a maine accent. and i'm american.

i think the states are so far apart you really don't know what's up with things like accents unless you're from there. i know the stereotypical new york city accent, the valley girl california slang, the texas southern stuff and that's about it.

i mean really, unless you are from a specific location you're going to only know what you hear on TV and in the movies, which is pretty much the 3 variations of american accents i listed above.

A-yeah. Ahm frum Georgie, 'n I reckon awl ah do's a-sit uh-raown 'n clean muh shotgun and pick them 'ol ticks offa muh huntin' dawg.

sixbysix

United Kingdom

December 2004

MAY 22, 2006 10:43 AM

I couldn't find Leicester on an unlabelled map. I have the vaguest idea where my own city Birmingham is, in that it's kinda sorta nearish to Wales, or moreso than to Scotland or Peru.

And yes, I tend to think of the middle blob of America as "Kentexassippi"- or the inconvenient buffer between the Spanish and India.

pygmy

Portland, OR

July 2004

MAY 22, 2006 10:49 AM

crap... i know it's here somewhere...

sixbysix

United Kingdom

December 2004

MAY 22, 2006 10:57 AM

pygmy said:
crap... i know it's here somewhere...

Duh, it's on the other side...

sturgis

I'm lost

September 2004

MAY 22, 2006 11:04 AM

I don't think anyone from Europe is really interested in where Missouri is. Just as I'm sure many Americans wouldn't know where Europe is.
What is important is that if needed does everyone know where to look? If someone asked which country was west of Germany, or where in Canada is British Columbia, do they have the common sense to know where to look it up?
Can they locate Kenya, Egypt, Korea, Moscow, Calcutta, Paris, Nice, Salt Lake City, Kabul, Rome, or Berlin?

billyfivecrows

Roswell, GA

July 2005

MAY 22, 2006 11:48 AM

"If you had a life-size map of the world... where would you put it...?"

-Stephen Wright

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN

June 2003

MAY 22, 2006 03:36 PM

Idjiit said:

Salome said:
Ask your average American the same thing.

Dude, seriously. Most Americans who (don't live near it) will not be able to tell you where Missouri is.

I've long advocated dissolving most of the midwest into one contigous clump labelled 'Corn Grows Here' on the map. The only way to really tell them apart is that each one is a unique and special kind of flat and desolate.

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