Ok everyone: Here is a very trivial question, and Dorian, feel free to move it if it isn't in the right forum..I guess it could fit into most of the forums actually!
As kids we sit outside in the dirt and decide to dig to another country. We figure that if we keep going we will eventually dig right through the world and come out somewhere different. Well I found out that Canadians and Brits don't dig to the same place! So, I was wondering, with all these different nationalities represented on here: when you were a kid, where did you dig to?
Yes, I know this question shows the full "depth "of my intellect! But its a rainy,cold day in Ontario and I'm thinking of digging to somewhere warmer! ********************************************************** 11-11-06, 05:51 PM cyberlaol I would dig to South Carolina but the ambassador to canada is from there I believe so that might not be a good place to go-of course there's always Disney world-I suppose they could always use another Goofy!! Big Grin
11-11-06, 07:29 PM dance girl Smilewell actually what I meant was..it is well known in the UK that if you are digging a hole to go somewhere as a kid, then it is generally assumed you are digging to Australia, but where do kids in other countries dig to?
But that's fine too; you can also answer where you'd like to dig to as an adult. Smile
It was a goofy question in the first place ..so I got a goofy answer! I'm sure you'd fit right in at Disney World with Micky and Minnie though! Wink
11-11-06, 09:42 PM jusork In old cartoons, they'd always dig to China. When considering where to dig to, I don't think I considered digging to anywhere else.
But trivia's supposed to be just for trivia questions, which is entirely different than trivial questions. Opinion discussion questions would go in any poll section. If you're not sure, just post it in Life and Living. This could go there.
11-11-06, 10:17 PM dance girl
quote: Originally posted by jusork: But trivia's supposed to be just for trivia questions, which is entirely different than trivial questions. Opinion discussion questions would go in any poll section. If you're not sure, just post it in Life and Living. This could go there.
Well, you know I did consider where to post this. But actually it is a genuine trivia question. Because in different parts of the world different kids dig to specific countries..so I don't think I'm that far wrong.
Although my question is trivial...it doesn't mean its not a genuine trivia question that can't be answered with a correct answer. however if someone wants to move it to another forum..then feel free by all means! Wink
And by the way jusork, this was the very first question I have asked on answerpool, so I'm quite happy to take advice! Smile
11-12-06, 02:06 PM jusork Ah, congrats on your first question.
But is there really a correct answer to where someone would dig to? Someone could dig to anywhere. To be a triva question, you'd have a question that aims for a certain answer. One that we could all answer the same. Anyway, just remember that, and I hope to see more questions.
11-12-06, 03:06 PM DorianGreyed Since this isn't Trivia, I'll be moving it to News & Reference, Geography later today or tomorrow.
11-12-06, 07:34 PM DorianGreyed Confused Confused
11-13-06, 03:26 PM Kendor Jusork, what dg is saying, (dance girl, not dorian), is that in different countries children dig to a location supposedly opposite theirs through the center of the earth. Here in the US we dug to China though probably would've ended up somewhere in the Pacific.
11-13-06, 04:57 PM FredPuli It has to be Australia or New Zealand : why else would the British call those places the Antipodes, meaning 'having their feet opposite to ours' ? Smile
11-13-06, 06:21 PM coldfuse China!
I suppose one could find a coordinates map or program on the internet and discover what opposes their own location. That, or stick a skewer through a cheap globe Big Grin
11-13-06, 06:24 PM juanruiz
quote: It has to be Australia or New Zealand : why else would the British call those places the Antipodes, meaning 'having their feet opposite to ours' ?
The Italians consider the antipodi the poles. For an anonymous 16th century English poet, Thule was the period of cosmography. The words of which were set to a wonderful madrigal by Thomas Weelkes.
11-13-06, 06:47 PM dance girl
quote: Originally posted by Kendor: Jusork, what dg is saying, (dance girl, not dorian), is that in different countries children dig to a location supposedly opposite theirs through the center of the earth. Here in the US we dug to China though probably would've ended up somewhere in the Pacific.
You got it Kendor..thankyou. Yes what I was trying to ask was: in the UK kids dig to Australia and in the US they dig to China. I heard the Japenese kids dig to Brazil... so where do other nations dig to?
But taking it a bit more seriously if you go to Google earth there is a clever little map that shows where you would actually come out if you dug through the world...provided you didn't melt your shovel on the molten lava first! Big Grin
11-13-06, 07:06 PM methos
quote: Originally posted by Kendor: ...Here in the US we dug to China though probably would've ended up somewhere in the Pacific.
quote: Originally posted by coldfuse: ...I suppose one could find a coordinates map or program on the internet and discover what opposes their own location. That, or stick a skewer through a cheap globe Big Grin
Or you could turn to everyone's favorite answer board, AnswerPool. Wink
11-13-06, 10:17 PM jusork Hey, I was thinking of that post with this, Methos.
Yeah, I think I understood what you were asking, I was just saying why I didn't understand it as a tirvia question. Eh.
11-13-06, 10:58 PM dance girl
quote: Originally posted by jusork:
Yeah, I think I understood what you were asking, I was just saying why I didn't understand it as a tirvia question. Eh.
Sorry,I can hardly hear you... I'm about 20' down now..who knows where I'll come out..but it better be warmer than here Big Grin What do you mean "eh" we don't all talk like that here in Canada you know, eh! Big Grin
11-16-06, 02:38 PM jusork You've got a ways to go there. Wink
I use eh as a way to casually close a discussion sometimes. It's like saying, 'oh well, whaterever.' 11-16-06, 06:08 PM
dance girl Oh I see..I was just teasing Big Grin Cos Canadians get teased about putting the word " eh ?" at the end of every sentence.
I'm not Canadian, but moved here from England, but I've noticed that I've started doing it too! Think it's contagious, eh? Smile
11-16-06, 08:41 PM jusork Eh, I consider my eh as being different than Canada's eh. But yeah, eh.
11-17-06, 07:54 AM FredPuli
quote: Originally posted by dance girl: Oh I see..I was just teasing Big Grin Cos Canadians get teased about putting the word " eh ?" at the end of every sentence.
I'm not Canadian, but moved here from England, but I've noticed that I've started doing it too! Think it's contagious, eh? Smile
So what did you say in England. Not 'innit', surely ? Big Grin
Is 'Eh' in Canada said to sound like an interrogative even when the statement is not, strictly, a question? The false interrogative is interesting. Young people have taken to saying 'innit' at the end of sentences. This usage is strikingly similar to Welsh people saying 'isn't it' in the same way, as though to emphasise the statement. They could justify this as a direct translation of the Welsh "od'yf'a" (pronounced 'oddi-var' or 'o-dee-var') , which literally is 'isn't it', but is used in this way in Welsh (not that many Cardiffians, or other Welsh come to that, would know that they were translating Welsh Wink)
11-17-06, 08:12 AM dance girl Where do you dig to? Yes you're right about that Fred. Canadians use it as a false interrogative, at the end of a sentence. Almost like they are looking for assurance that the statement that precedes it is correct or that the listener agrees. Sort of like the English saying "right?" Wink
11-17-06, 09:43 AM newnickname 'Eh' is used in Scotland, too, along with 'though' (Edinburgh) and 'but' (Glasgow), as a kind of tag question or spoken full-stop, but. If you've read 'Trainspotting', you'll know that Edinburgh also has 'likesay' ("and the likes of that"?), huh.
I'm told that 'huh' is used in the US, eh. Japanese has an exact equivalent - 'ne', which can make a statement into a question or 'soften' a comment, or just let everyone know that you've finished, though.
That abstract hints at the various uses of these endings, innit. I guess there's a need in all languages for some noise to end off a sentence - and this noise can make the sentence more aggressive, more tentative, or turn it into a question, no?
11-19-06, 12:44 PM methos On the earlier topic, I just came across this site . Neat, eh?
11-19-06, 01:47 PM FredPuli
quote: Originally posted by newnickname:
There's a French version too; 'hein', ne.
Hein is universal within France itself (and, sadly, I find myself saying it there Roll Eyes ) As to Welsh 'isn't it' that is commonest in South Wales: there is a North Walian version which is 'aye', said with the rather nasal North Walian accent.At one time you'd hear older Welsh people, particularly from the West, saying 'yes, indeed' instead, gratuitously and reduntantly at the end of sentences.So there were and are regional variations even in a small country.
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