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How utterly annoying! You can't make an lj-cut in the middle of a poll - I'd wanted to do it after the first question, so people would have some idea what the poll's about.
( Tell me the story of your livejournal username. )
Something random I thought of while compiling this poll (and yes, this is the random triviality I promised on Friday) - in American English, the word "check" is used as a verb to mean "make a cross in the box that applies". (In the UK, we usually tick boxes, not cross them - and I don't think "check" is used in this context - except by Brits like me who have been exposed to US culture too much on the internet). Also in American English, the game that we call "draughts" is called "checkers". In this game, you move circular discs around a board with a grid-pattern of boxes. Now, how come when you "check" a box, you put a cross in it, but when you play "checkers" you put a circle in it?
Yes, I said it was trivial.
( Tell me the story of your livejournal username. )
Something random I thought of while compiling this poll (and yes, this is the random triviality I promised on Friday) - in American English, the word "check" is used as a verb to mean "make a cross in the box that applies". (In the UK, we usually tick boxes, not cross them - and I don't think "check" is used in this context - except by Brits like me who have been exposed to US culture too much on the internet). Also in American English, the game that we call "draughts" is called "checkers". In this game, you move circular discs around a board with a grid-pattern of boxes. Now, how come when you "check" a box, you put a cross in it, but when you play "checkers" you put a circle in it?
Yes, I said it was trivial.
