Spoilers So now Discovery is 'synched-up' with canon
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I believe I've made myself clear.
So If I was born in Tucson Arizona but moved to Seattle Washington at age two, I would still be from Tuscon?
By clear you mean ignoring people who answered your question. Fair enough.
No, I pointed out an error. Fair enough, indeed.
Yes.
As another example, professional figure skater Nathan Chen is from Salt Lake City although he does not currently reside in Utah.
I'd ask if you're going to be like this all day but...yeah.
Sorry, I disagree. In my example, my fictitious person is no more 'from' Tucson than anyone else in the city of Seattle in which they grew up and called home.
Then feel free to stop replying to me.
Just because you disagree with what I said does not make it inaccurate.
You are "from" the place where you were born, not the place you reside, as the place you were born will never change whereas the place you reside will.
i am from regensburg but i live in berlin
At best, I would say that your statement is not absolute. It certainly wasn't in my example which you are trying super hard to ignore for some reason.
If Kirk was actually born on the Kelvin, would he tell people, "I'm from the Kelvin, but I live in Iowa?"
So, you're saying if I was born in a hospital in LA, but was immediately taken to Atlanta and grew up there, that I'd be "from" LA?
My bullshit sense is tingling.
My bullshit sense is tingling.
I'm not ignoring your example at all; I simply disagree with your argument, as would most other people.
That might be a regional thing. I was born in Maryland, my family moved when I was only a few months old, and I never say I'm from MD, because it was a tiny portion of my life I don't remember. I don't identify with it. Same for pretty much everyone I know.
When people say, "Where are you from?" the last response I would give is MD, but I might mention it to them as a point of interest.
Feel free to disagree with me, but don't assume others would either. You're not psychic. The last two posters certainly don't agree with your assessment.
i'm leaning a bit to that, too but my family had lived in regensburg for more than twohundred years, so that's a bit different
but iowa is all we get in primeline canon. he later lived on tarsus IV but afaik he never said he's from there
Even if you do not identify yourself as being "from" Maryland, that is where you are legally "from" based on your birth certificate.
That has nothing to do with where you tell people you're from in casual conversation.
I never said that it did.
What I am saying is that even if you do not identify as being "from" the place you were born, you are still "from" that place.
When people ask, "Where are you from?" I rarely find that they're asking about a birthplace. As a legal question, I suppose a birthplace would be the go-to answer, but I don't experience that at all in casual conversation.
Even legally, I assume that "place of residency" is what they want to know first, except in a few circumstances.
Just nonsense - nobody acts like that.
