Oct. 22nd, 2004

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How do you refer to past residences (particularly to someone who's lived/visited them)? Looking back at mine, the breakdown is as follows:
  • Street name (e.g. "Theodore Avenue"): 5
  • Building/house name (e.g. "Basler Tor"): 4
  • Municipality/Neighbourhood (e.g. "Troy"): 2
  • Nickname (e.g. "the Roach Motel"): 2
  • Owner's name (e.g. "Grandma's"): 0
Overall, a pretty consistent pattern of street names for freestanding houses and building names for multiresidential buildings, particularly dormitories. Exceptions include my previous apartment (the building didn't have a distinctive name, so I refer to it by street) and my last family residence (I was the one who pioneered the use of a nickname, "Three Birches", to replace the street name/owner's name conventions in use). I haven't had much need to refer to my current apartment as anything besides "my place", but when I do, I'll probably use the building name, MDA.

What's the breakdown for y'all? What possibilities have I left out?
Oct. 22nd, 2004 03:37 pm

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According to the traditional Chinese calendar, today is the ninth day of the ninth month, the date of a lesser-known festival. Traditionally, one is supposed to (1) take a bag of cornel-wood, (2) climb to the highest point around, and (3) drink chrysanthemum wine while (4) watching the moon rise. Obviously, the originators weren't thinking ahead to the day when they'd colonise Chicago because (1) trees of the Cornus genus are rarer here than English-speaking cabbies, (2) looking for an elevated spot is like looking for puddles in the Atacama, (3) I can't find chrysanthemum wine--or any other variety of Chinese wine--for sale anywhere, and (4) ain't nobody going see the moon rise over this town tonight.

So what's a romantic Sinophile to do? Tonight, [livejournal.com profile] monshu is taking me to a Korean barbecue house on a hill. There will be moon designs in the decor, baekseju on tap, a modest rise under our feet, and we'll just have to scare up our own kind of wood afterwards.

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