Appalachian English

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Cites Anechoic · 2010-12 · on “After correcting for demographics, US schools fare better than EU/Asian schools”

Well those weren't exhaustive examples, but I'd still disagree - for the longest time, I though "hoagie" was a polish food (I grew up in "grinder" territory) and I was mystified the first time someone asked me to pick up an "orange coke" at the drug store. Another example: [this video] it's all English, and you can often get a general meaning from context, but the vid gives examples of words I've never heard, or more familiar English words used in combinations that obscure the meaning. So of course you can take someone from the video and drop them in NYC and they'll be able to function, but there will likely be things they miss and things NYCers will miss talking to them. Now in a school environm

Cites jfarmer · 2013-09 · on “That Time I Made A Website”

There's a few things worth responding to in your comment, some technical and non-technical, but both important for beginners to keep in mind. I assume you know most of what I'm going to say, so I'm pretending a student asked this. So, what's the problem with the <center> tag? First, at the purely technical level, <center> was deprecated in HTML4.01 and is not part of HTML5 at all. As far as I know browsers will still render it fine, but it's technically not valid HTML5. Second, <center> was deprecated along with other tags like <font>, <blink>, <big>, and <strike> because of a popular movement in the late 90s to encapsulate the logical and semantic structure of the document in HTML and the d

Cites bane · 2014-11 · on “Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?”

There is, lots of ski resorts, hiking, that sort of thing. The kicker is that those same places will actually hire in lots of Europeans to work the facilities, so not only are the employees not local, they aren't even from the same country! It's a shame, there's a kernel of some great culture there, a unique dialect, great music, entertaining local history and color, some beautiful folk art. Local dialect [this video] The traditional music is a descendant of Celtic folk music, but unique enough to be interesting. Here's a fantastic documentary on the music [LINK] All it would really take would be for some kind of Appalachian Music to become wildly popular and I could see the region getting popula