The way things ought to be
For those of you who don’t read the comments, here are some brilliant ideas from Mira Weisenthal (with commentary by moi truly, bien sur):
what if it was expected that, in the same way some people choose to say english-appropriated words in the accents of the lands those words are originally from, when people would say names, they would have to use the accent of the place where that name originated?ex: my first name is Indian and my last name is German. If you wanted to say my full name you would have to switch quickly from an Indian accent to a German one. some names, like ones from Japan, would obviously be much easier than many Latin names because - Hey! Is that Mexican or Spanish?
It would be really embarrassing and difficult for elementary school teachers.
I’d love it if people pronounced my first name (Rhys) with a Welsh accent and my last name (Southan) with an English accent. To those in charge, I say implement this one.
But Mira didn’t stop there…
if after high school, kids leave their parents’ homes not-quite-adults and when they leave college they ARE adults, who does the raising in-between? it’s friends, that’s who. and because you don’t live with them and they’re basically just as irresponsible as you are, it’s merely one step closer to autonomy. and for you (also a raiser of friends), it’s like one step closer to having a baby of your own because now it’s not that flour or egg baby, it’s real people. but they can still feed and change themselves.
More of an observation than an idea, but observations are fine too. Yet Mira kept going…
what about a movie that is a lifetime-long?or a food that is all the foods in the world combined in equal proportions?
A movie that is a lifetime long might have been feasible in the time of Douglas and Honest Abe, when humans had the patience to sit for months at a time, listening to politicans debate serious issues of substance (tip-of-the-hat to Neil Postman). Nowadays, however, everything is cut cut cut, new new new, gimme gimme gimme, and no one could sit down to watch one movie for an entire lifetime. Half the audience would walk out after the first year. Even people who walked out after 50 years would ask for their money back. It would be a total flop. Though an interesting endeavor for sure. And I’m sure The New Yorker would flip its friggin wig.
As for a food that is all the foods in the world combined? I wouldn’t eat that.
6 years ago