The Friday Five for 11 October 2024

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1. If you could live in any city in the world, where would you live and why?

2. If you could speak any language fluently, what would it be?

3. When was the last time you rode a ferry and where did you go?

4. What was the longest plane ride you've ever taken?

5. If you discovered a country, what would you name it?

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[zefyr]

1. If you could live in any city in the world, where would you live and why?
  Perhaps some city in a Nordic country. My experience has been that the design of cities in the region are more human-centered and integrated with the surrounding nature rather than being lifeless concrete jungles or characterized by expansive urban sprawl. To be honest, I have quite sad memories about that part of the world, but it's truly a beautiful region.

2. If you could speak any language fluently, what would it be?
  Maybe the original language of Atlantis before the catastrophe that destroyed it and dispersal of its inhabitants throughout Europe and beyond. In linguistics, I suppose it'd be called the proto-Nostratic language or something.

3. When was the last time you rode a ferry and where did you go?
  The last ferry I took was in 2018 from Batumi to Odessa. I have mixed feelings about that trip, as I unfortunately became quite intoxicated while at the bar talking to various people, the only ones I remember being a guy whom I called Hawaii Mike for some reason or another and a businessman from Switzerland. I wasn't paying attention but was enjoying the opportunity to use French after years of having not used it at all. One too many screwdrivers.

4. What was the longest plane ride you've ever taken?
  This is a tricky one, as I'm not sure if we're talking single trips or trips with uninterrupted connecting flights. If the former, then probably the flight between Melbourne and Bangkok, but if the latter, then definitely the four flights between Melbourne and Helsinki. I've taken so many flights in my life that I no longer remember all of them, but that was probably the longest and maybe even the most significant journey of all. I remember it well all these years later.

5. If you discovered a country, what would you name it?
  If I discovered a country, I assume it'd already have inhabitants, so I'd ask them what they called their land and then come up with an appropriate form of the name in English based upon it. If we're talking about what I'd name a country of my own creation, I'm not really sure. Definitely it'd be something euphonic yet without phonemes alien to too many languages so that it can be adapted without excessive mangling.