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[redwallzyl]

You might want to inform your countrymen then, as I've heard "Sprite is lemonade" from multiple sources.

Sprite is lemonade

Heresy!

[scriver]

Deal! You now have to correctly refer to moose as elk, and your previously known as elk deer will from now on be called a "buckle up buckaroo moo".

[Antioch]

The funny thing is that I have had this exact same misunderstanding with a German that asked me to get her some lemonade from the store.

She wasn't entirely happy with what I returned with.

[Frumple]

Lelwut frumple, Elk live primarily in the northern parts of the US, you'd find them in Yellowstone for example. Ditto Alaska and the whole of Canada.

You'll note that, while I have been from east to west coast and back in this country, I've never personally been further north than north carolina -- I got family all the way up (NY), but if there's elk around the areas they're in I rather imagine the elk apocalypse descending on NYC would have hit the news by now. Misk would have at least mentioned the regular elk dodging, at least. Critters might as well not exist for all they've interacted with basically anything I have. Elk are like wyoming. No one's where they are to tell you they exist.

You may also be interested in a population map of the country, so that you may compare the rest of it to what isn't in the northern wilderness-y bits

[scriver]

Ahem, Frumple. I hope you are following the Bay12 Language Convention of 2017 up there.

[Frumple]

Probably!

... to be completely honest, I don't actually remember exactly what an elk is, or if there's any difference between one and a moose and a BUBM. I've just been throwing out the word and letting it stick to whatever it sticks to for whoever reads it.

Is why ceding elk and moose and basically everything related to them is real easy. Got no clue which ones they are and I don't really care if or how badly I'm getting it wrong :V

[smjjames]

Organ Pipe cacti are pretty self explainatory I suppose, they grow really tall and in bunches.

Though yeah, you'd have to explain what a cactus is to those not familiar.

[ChairmanPoo]

Thats a bad example in a DF forum.  Of course I know what a saguaro is

[Mech#4]

Hm, I know what a saguaro is but apparently it's pronounced "sa-wa-row" and not "sa-gua-row".

[ChairmanPoo]

It"s a loanword from some aztec language imto Spanish and from there into English.  I'm assuming that Spanish phonology applies amd that therefore I do know how to pronounce it

[Culise]

Lelwut frumple, Elk live primarily in the northern parts of the US, you'd find them in Yellowstone for example. Ditto Alaska and the whole of Canada.

You'll note that, while I have been from east to west coast and back in this country, I've never personally been further north than north carolina -- I got family all the way up (NY), but if there's elk around the areas they're in I rather imagine the elk apocalypse descending on NYC would have hit the news by now. Misk would have at least mentioned the regular elk dodging, at least. Critters might as well not exist for all they've interacted with basically anything I have. Elk are like wyoming. No one's where they are to tell you they exist.

You may also be interested in a population map of the country, so that you may compare the rest of it to what isn't in the northern wilderness-y bits

That might be part of the reason. You won't find many in NY, but they do range through the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascades to the coast.  Boop (dark green for modern, which is the relevant bit).  It'd be more accurate for smjjames to say "west" rather than "north", though; their range follows the Rockies as far south as New Mexico, helped by intentional reintroduction, though similar groups have also been working on doing the same in the Appalachians. 

That said, Pacific Northwest aside, the Rockies and Appalachians are indeed not exactly densely populated.

[WealthyRadish]

I've seen elk in my childhood yard on multiple occasions (within a densely populated urban area), they're not some elusive beast that you need live in a mountain cabin made of your own shit to ever encounter (or worse, visit Wyoming).

[TheDarkStar]

If you live in Utah (densely populated from a few hours south to a few hours north of Salt Lake) you're right in the middle of elk territory. Same goes for western Colorado, but idk if some of the big cities there are included. And it appears that coastal Washington/Oregon/some of California is included, which is also a place with a lot of people.

[scriver]

The disregard for international agreements on this thread is appalling.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Shoulda got those signatory commitments before you finalized the treaty. After the EU I thought you'd know better, scriver.