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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To expand on this, being older than bones is why you can't find animal fossils in the Appalachian mountains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is that just for vertebrates? Seems that exoskeletons should still be fair game, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You are correct. I had a brain fart. There are shells and the like, but you won't come across the next big T-Rex find.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

This is one of those "Sharks are older than the North Star" things that's going to live in my head rent free forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROAD

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Seems like North America has always had a thing for conservatism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

How does one pronounce Appalachian?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The closer you get, the more it sounds like "App-uh-latch-uh"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Apple asian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'll stick with Ah-pah-lah-shee-an

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

al-paca-i-en

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Depends where you're from lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

App uh latch e en

Alternatively can be pronounced app uh latch in

Edit: been told I'm wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I've also heard apple-late-chin

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not App uh Lay shin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, the way I typed it is how the robots in Fallout 76 pronounce it haha. I could very well be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You cheeky bastard!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

From Western PA and this is the pronunciation I grew up with (but all others were also accepted)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, Pittsburgh here, I totally say lay-shun.

It's been said the Pittsburgh accent is one of the least attractive so maybe don't go mimicking our diction.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In the same vein, sharks are older than trees.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sharks are older than Saturn's rings.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The Appalachian mountains are full of hillbillies. THAT'S the scary part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The hills have bones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Wouldn't they be mountainbillies?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Banjo intensifies.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This sound like the opening of some eldritch horror novel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The resting place of cthulhu's rotten carcass

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's unironically a bunch of Appalachian cosmic horror stuff out there. In fact iirc Savage Worlds has a setting for it called Holler and Monte Cook games published a ttrpg for the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If I hadn't burned myself out on Pseudopod, Welcome to Nightvale, The Black Tapes, and Limetown, I'd be a bigger fan.

But my friends swear up and down by Old Gods. Solid writing and a good creepy blend of the mundane and surreal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Well if you know anything about Appalachian lore

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

They'll kick your ass too. Source: hiked hundreds of miles therein

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Keith Richards built the Appalachian mountains.

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