three random topics
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the_siobhanThe latest meme going around is to ask someone for "3 subjects I don't think you know or care much about. Then you talk about those subjects in your journal". redbird gave me:
Kites
A toy and a bird. I have vague memories of playing with a kite when I was a child, but I must have been very young because I don't remember much about it.
I know slightly more about birds, and kites are a type of small raptor. They do not play basketball.
velvet
Everything I know about velvet I learned from alt.gothic.fashion. Which is only that it's a type of weave rather than a specific fabric, so it can be made out of a number of different things.
By virtue of the fact that we hung some velvet fabric in our front window to serve as a temporary curtain (approximately 12 years ago) I also know that it collects cat hair like nothing you have ever seen.
Swahili
I know it's a language from Africa, one of the more widespread on the continent. I have no idea where exactly it comes from, but if I had to hazard a guess I'd say the western countries? I say that only because during the height of the Civil Rights movement in the USA, some African-Americans learned Swahili and adopted Swahili names as a way of reconnecting with lost cultural roots.
[Checks Wikipedia] OK, my guess was completely wrong. Central-East coast
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[gets lost down a rabbit hole of reading about African languages]
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If anyone would like me to give you three topics, along the same lines, ask; of course, if I don't know you very well, I may give you a subject on which you could happily talk for days.
redbird gave me:Kites
A toy and a bird. I have vague memories of playing with a kite when I was a child, but I must have been very young because I don't remember much about it.
I know slightly more about birds, and kites are a type of small raptor. They do not play basketball.
velvet
Everything I know about velvet I learned from alt.gothic.fashion. Which is only that it's a type of weave rather than a specific fabric, so it can be made out of a number of different things.
By virtue of the fact that we hung some velvet fabric in our front window to serve as a temporary curtain (approximately 12 years ago) I also know that it collects cat hair like nothing you have ever seen.
Swahili
I know it's a language from Africa, one of the more widespread on the continent. I have no idea where exactly it comes from, but if I had to hazard a guess I'd say the western countries? I say that only because during the height of the Civil Rights movement in the USA, some African-Americans learned Swahili and adopted Swahili names as a way of reconnecting with lost cultural roots.
[Checks Wikipedia] OK, my guess was completely wrong. Central-East coast
...
[gets lost down a rabbit hole of reading about African languages]
...
If anyone would like me to give you three topics, along the same lines, ask; of course, if I don't know you very well, I may give you a subject on which you could happily talk for days.