Jacob T. Levy on Nostr: To be an American travelling around London by tube or the country by train is to ...
To be an American travelling around London by tube or the country by train is to encounter lots of place names one vaguely knows from books/ movies/ TV shows in which the place name is meant to immediately evoke some highly particular class/ culture/ accent/ norms matrix, understanding none of it.
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