#Microblog Monday 363: Around the World With Lists
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I am not normally a Buzzfeed reader, but I liked this post rounding up how things change as you move around the world in various categories.
For instance: tally marks. Was not aware there even was more than one way to make tally marks, but apparently, there are at least three. There are tons of food ones and animal ones. But also wedding dress customs, the way we respond to sneezes, and the monsters that haunt our stories.
Mentally travel without leaving home and learn that not all hedgehogs are alike.
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I always take these things with a grain of salt, because I rarely agree with their choices for NZ (I haven’t eaten porridge for breakfast in over 40 years, and I’ve never heard anyone say “god bless you” after a sneeze, for e.g) , or we’re ignored entirely. So they can be fun, but don’t take the information as gospel. The tally marks are right though. I learned about them when I studied Chinese.
Interesting. Although there can be a lot of regional variation even within countries as to food preferences, terminology, etc. It certainly applies to Canada! For example, depending on where you are, you may be spending this weekend at the cottage, the cabin, the camp or just “the lake.” 😉
Now I want a hot dog. And a dog.
Awww, the hedgehogs! And I am in love with Japanese hot dogs. Why would you ever make them another way? And the Grootslang, what a scary thing… and man the Japanese monsters are the best. Who would have thought to have a “sentient roll of cotton” that smothers you? The Japanese, that’s who! Some of the charts struck me as a little judgy, because what is disgusting for food is in the eye of the beholder. Or the be-eater. And the French/Brazilian tally mark? BRILLIANT.