Person at a party: Oh, you're an internet linguist, I have a story for you! So around 1995, as a Canadian teenager, I met the Prime Minister (Jean Chrétien at the time), and we somehow got talking about the internet, and he goes, "Yeah, I've never skated the internet."
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The next time I'm talking to a group of non-Canadians (who don't follow me on here, I guess), should I try to convince them that Canadians actually say "skate the internet" instead of "surf the internet"?
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Gretchen McCulloch Retweeted thingswithwings
yes please submit more suggestions for Rick Mercer's Talking To Americans, the 2020 revival (if you don't know what this is, look up the initial capped words on youtube)https://twitter.com/twwings/status/1183214034910359552 …
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Gretchen McCulloch Retweeted John Bowman
In Canada, we skate the information 401https://twitter.com/johnbowman/status/1183214907921182726 …
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If people from your area had their own sporting or movement metaphor for navigating the internet, what would it be?
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Gretchen McCulloch Retweeted Shiny Bâjé
Wow, I am incredibly into thishttps://twitter.com/XetraSherpa/status/1183221357401825280 …
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who are the kind of people who snorkle the internet or what about spelunking the internet
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spelunking the deep web, of course
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