geography epitome of incomprehensibility (no one's written on this word yet, so here's a silly poem I wrote when I was 20) Geography To understand geography You have to use your noodle. The capital of Spain is S; Afghanistan, Kaboodle. Rivers flow in Africa But Egypt’s in denial. These facts are very serious. They shouldn’t make you smile. Denmark is a rotten state And Holland’s got The Plague— It must be some tectonic plate That fell and broke its leg. The Rocky Mountains are too loud, They like to rock and roll While quiet Mount Helena Keeps things under control. There’s no more Yugoslavia. It split into Yu-Gi-Oh. The former state of Canada Is now Ontario. Burma can be called Myanmar, The Suez Canal, Susie. The job then, of geographer, Is sometimes quite confusing. 220314 ... past geography: the least coherent field of study, but at least geographers like to have fun. a former supervisor defined it as "a culture of socialable fieldwork." 220315 ... e_o_i How is "socialable" different than "sociable"? (Not sarcastic here, just curious; I don't think I've heard the first before.) 220328 ... past you know it could be a trick of the ear and memory inventing a new word. 220329 ... e_o_i Oh! I thought it was a word I didn't know (there are a lot), but Merriam-Webster and Prof. Google think it doesn't exist. Except for this site, which tells you HELLO in all caps and then has a list of things it does that seems like an exercise in "filler" writing: https://www.socialable.media/ 220330 what's it to you? who go blather from