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“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.” - The House at Pooh Corner
Gretchen:hey we should use tumblr blaze to tell people an interesting thing about linguistics!
Lauren: but, um, we don’t do ads?
Gretchen:this is different, people are using it to promote like, photos of their pets, it’s cute!
Lauren:okay, so what should we tell them?
Gretchen:we could link to a photo of our producer…
Lauren:we’re an audio podcast, people are going to be disappointed if they start out expecting to get cat pics all the time
Gretchen:okay true. hm.
Lauren: linguistics facts wouldn’t be misleading though
Gretchen:WAIT
Gretchen: I’ve got it
Lauren:what
Gretchen: the Eeyore thing
Lauren: the Eeyore thing?
Gretchen:okay, so you know how the secondary animals in Winnie the Pooh all have really obvious names? Like, there’s a rabbit named Rabbit, an owl named Owl, a piglet named Piglet, two kangaroos called Kanga and Roo. And then there’s Eeyore
Lauren: who also has an obvious name
Gretchen: yeah, obvious to you and A. A. Milne, who both have non-rhotic accents! I was a full adult when I learned that Eeyore was just the sound a donkey makes, like it’s the British spelling of “hee-haw”
Lauren:and Australian! I have always known this
Gretchen: not for me! I still remember exactly where I was when I found out, I just spent the next five minutes saying “Eeyore” to myself in a British accent
Lauren: so, just so we’re clear, your plan is to spend $10 in the hope that a few randomly selected people scrolling through tumblr will pause and say “Eeyore” at the screen with and without the R?
It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn’t heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore’s stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.
“Hello Eeyore,” said Pooh.
“Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet,” said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice.
“We just thought we’d check in on you,” said Piglet, “because we hadn’t heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay.”
Eeyore was silent for a moment. “Am I okay?” he asked, eventually. “Well, I don’t know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That’s what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. Which is why I haven’t bothered you. Because you wouldn’t want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now.”
Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.
Eeyore looked at them in surprise. “What are you doing?”
“We’re sitting here with you,” said Pooh, “because we are your friends. And true friends don’t care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are.”
“Oh,” said Eeyore. “Oh.” And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.
Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say “How do you do” in a gloomy manner to Pooh. “And how are you?” said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. “Not very how,” he said. “I don’t seem to felt at all how for a long time.” “We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.” ~Eeyore
Gretchen:hey we should use tumblr blaze to tell people an interesting thing about linguistics!
Lauren: but, um, we don’t do ads?
Gretchen:this is different, people are using it to promote like, photos of their pets, it’s cute!
Lauren:okay, so what should we tell them?
Gretchen:we could link to a photo of our producer…
Lauren:we’re an audio podcast, people are going to be disappointed if they start out expecting to get cat pics all the time
Gretchen:okay true. hm.
Lauren: linguistics facts wouldn’t be misleading though
Gretchen:WAIT
Gretchen: I’ve got it
Lauren:what
Gretchen: the Eeyore thing
Lauren: the Eeyore thing?
Gretchen:okay, so you know how the secondary animals in Winnie the Pooh all have really obvious names? Like, there’s a rabbit named Rabbit, an owl named Owl, a piglet named Piglet, two kangaroos called Kanga and Roo. And then there’s Eeyore
Lauren: who also has an obvious name
Gretchen: yeah, obvious to you and A. A. Milne, who both have non-rhotic accents! I was a full adult when I learned that Eeyore was just the sound a donkey makes, like it’s the British spelling of “hee-haw”
Lauren:and Australian! I have always known this
Gretchen: not for me! I still remember exactly where I was when I found out, I just spent the next five minutes saying “Eeyore” to myself in a British accent
Lauren: so, just so we’re clear, your plan is to spend $10 in the hope that a few randomly selected people scrolling through tumblr will pause and say “Eeyore” at the screen with and without the R?
Gretchen: yes, this sounds perfect, yes.
another great use of sponsored posts tbh
I’m now wondering if the Icelandic translator who localised the names realised this. Most of the names make sense but there are some that are just phonetic changes like Roo becoming Gúri
