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[oloriel]

Un-words of the year:
1. Twitter/Tweet
2. Dreamwidth

I feel like a technophobe now, but there it is.

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You know what would be awesome? If someone nominated the feudal system on Sark (last feudal society in all Europe!) for Intangible Cultural Heritage with the UNESCO.
I mean, seriously. Yes, I know it's Europe, but that's all the more reason to protect it.
Then again, by the time the mills of UNESCO had come to any decision, the EU's ZOMG FEUDALISM IS SO BAD YOU MUST BE DEMOCRACISED mission will long have been implemented, and there'll be nothing left to protect.

Shameful admission: I'd really, really like to do fieldwork on Sark before (and, of course, after) that enforced democratisation. It would be good if someone actually paid me for it but I would do it even without immediate payment (and hope that, when all's said and done, I get the results published). That's about the only thing that works as a motivation to finish being a student and becoming a Useful Member Of Society (tm) currently.

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I should be working.

Comments

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'm very much not a fan of your "unwords", too. He.

I should be working, too.

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

I'm just too busy with the amount of life I already have to be follwing Twitter on top of everything. *theatrical faint*
Dreamwidth? Meh, not interested.

Totally with you about Sark.

>>
EU: How do you do, good lady? I am from Brussels, home of the EU Administrative (what there is). Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: Admin of who?
EU: The EU.
WOMAN: Who are the EU?
EU: Well, we all are. We are all Europeans, and I am your king Admin.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had the EU. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a Democracy: a self-perpetuating free market in which the working classes--
[...]
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
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[allamistako.livejournal.com]

Sark? What's Sark?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

A Channel island.

[furius.livejournal.com]

Before this year, I think "twittering" has always had an unpleasant connotation in the language unless the subjects are birds.

"DW" should be an un-acronym as well, just because it reminds me of Doctor Who :(

I just looked up Sark on Wiki. The history sounds amazing....but apparently it's no longer feudal, as of 2008.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I thought they've been in a kind of transitionary phase since 2008, and the actual abolition of the old system will take place in 2012. Of course I may remember that wrong. Drats.

Re: DW

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

Discworld, for me.