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The US is so bad at naming things!

A Serpentine Wall sounds better than a Worm Fence or Snake Fence.

Crinkle Crankle Wall is a bit more fun than ZigZag Fence.

A Ribbon Wall seems like a nice thing to have on your property vs a Battlefield Fence.

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I'd much rather have a Battlefield Wall on my property in the US than a Ribbon Wall or Crinkle Crankle Wall. The latter two sound ridiculous. I really like "Serpentine Wall", but it sounds a little too technical for everyday conversation with nontechnical people

I suppose it's subjective but Crinkle Crankle is better because it sounds so ridiculous.

Ribbon Wall doesn't sound any more ridiculous than same-shaped Ribbon Candy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_candy) or Ribbon Cables (https://www.fxpstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ribbon-w...), and ribbons don't call to mind atrocities or human suffering. Battlefields are terrible places where horrific things happen. That's not something I'd want associated with my own property.

The value in this is the historical dimension. Apparently, "crinkle-crankle" dates to 1598. So it's a pre-US term.

I agree that it's not a good look to automatically prefer the military term to the "ridiculous" one. It smacks of toxic masculinity.

"Crinkle-crankle" is obviously archaic, and it evokes folk art and (in the US) colonial culture. That is fairly neutral, as placenames go.

Crinkle crinkle wall has to be the most British sounding britishism ever. Like something that would have been a subject of serious research at the Ministry of Silly Walls.

True dat, bruv.

And that's jenga.

And that's Number Wang!

> The latter two sound ridiculous. I really like "Serpentine Wall", but it sounds a little too technical for everyday conversation with nontechnical people

ribbon sounds ridiculous and serpentine sounds technical? you are not a boomer. "Serpentine, Shel, serpentine!" -- Peter Falk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_w-QCWpS0

Alan Arkin just died recently, RIP

It doesn’t sound technical at all. It sounds like you’ve read a book or two beyond the abc and cat in the hat. But then, US education.

This is a perfect summation of the differences between USians and British.

You want a BATTLEFIELD wall. I want a Crinkle Crankle

This is because you lost the Revolution.

Why is it referred to as a revolution? A revolution tends to refer to the overthrow of a govt within a single nations border, whereas one country splitting from another tends to be referred to independence.

I don't really see the cause and effect either. Surely the USs love of FORTRESS walls would be a reason they won?

Anyway, you say lost. I say we got rid of the tea wasters. Sounds like a win to me.

Please avoid nationalistic flamebait on HN. It leads to nationalistic flamewars, which we're eager to avoid - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I realize some of this is lighthearted banter but sadly Mr. Internet can't really do that for very long.

I wouldn't say it's flame bait.

It just seemed to me a very good example of '2 nations divided by a common language'

But I'm more a celebrate the differences kind of guy.

But point taken about the internet being the internet.

As the janitor who has to put out these fires (mixed metaphor, but accurate) I promise you it's flamebait. That's a question of statistical outcomes, not personal taste.

It would be nice if it were otherwise but for that you need a much smaller and more cohesive group. Large internet forums can't work that way - the long tail is too big, and there's always a supply of triggerable commenters.

That's just like, your opinion man. Worm is a cool word. Maybe we can compromise and call it a wyrm fence.

A worm fence sounds like it should be a couple inches tall and several feet deep, to block the worms.

Wyrm fence is a great name! I'd use one to keep my hoard of treasure safe

Sounds like the name of a startup thats going to put fence contractors out of business in a few years before getting sued for not classifying their workers as employees.

Wyrm = dragon. Wyrmwall/fence would actually be a cool name.

I grew up around these fences and never heard them called anything but a split-rail fence. Seems apt.

I'd've called it a chazzwozzer.

They're in the lorry and the larder and...

https://imgur.com/EFGnF

Thats because you're Australian.

Although yours are probably highly venomous too.

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