Morning announcements

[maeve66]

These are read every morning by "leadership students", e.g. Student Council members. This morning's history nugget was that X number of years ago (I don't recall what they said, because I wasn't listening until the following gem) "15,000 refugees left the kum-YOON-ist country of Cambodia, SUB-squinet to...." blah blah blah I stopped listening to marvel at those pronunciations, especially of communist. Oh, ancient history. Oh, students born in 1996, 1995, or 1994.

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[shanrina.livejournal.com]

LOL. I definitely knew what Communism was by around that age, but I grew up in Wacky Liberal Land. (No one at my high school joined the Young Democrats Club or whatever it was called because they preferred the Socialist Club, which had another name but which was clearly the Socialist Club.)

I think (or rather, I'm hoping) that it was a case of them never having heard the word rather than not having a clue of who the Communists were/are. That still happens to me sometimes. I'd never heard the word "fracas" before about a week ago and I was shocked when I heard a newscaster pronounce it "FRAY-cas" because I'd always thought it was "FRAH-cas."

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have a reader's vocabulary, too. And I think I would have said "frackus"... or maybe (ha!) "frahcah"!

How old are you, though? And where is wacky liberal land? East Coast?

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

I'm 21, so for me it's still in the realm of history, but not quite as far off.

And yes, wacky liberal land is the East Coast. DC suburbs in MD. We had a lot of teachers who had been jailed for civil disobedience in the 60s, and IIRC my US History teacher actually set some sort of NC State Supreme Court precedent for conscientious objectors. He told us stories about his time in jail, too. :D

So yes, I have renamed it wacky liberal land.