On Sun 08 Apr 2012, Kake kake@earth.li wrote:
I realised that Templeton College should probably now be Green Templeton College: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Templeton_College,_Oxford
Yes indeed. I thought Green Templeton should have been in that list from oxpoints...? If it wasn't, I'm sorry!
Also, Greyfriars is no longer a College/PPH (but since there wasn't a page for it, just a link from [[Permanent Private Hall]]*, this isn't a problem).
* which should probably be deleted anyway, along with other stuff that's covered by Wikipedia...
Heh, just found this: http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Visit_Every_College_In_A_Single_Day
We (for some values of 'we' - a bunch of runners from OUCS) actually ran to every college for Red Nose Day (& to publicise our geolocation project) a few years ago. Here's our route:
http://erewhon.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rednose/route.xml
I might add a link, if it's not too much like self-promotion. :-}
['Oriental Food']
It's a really weird and old-fashioned term, and I actually have no idea what it means (e.g. is Japanese food "Oriental"? Is Malaysian food "Oriental"? What about Xinjiang food? I bet different people would give different answers to those questions.)
I'd've said yes to all of those but only because I have a vague idea that 'Oriental' is anything 'a bit Chinesey or Japanesey'.
Oxford University still has an 'Oriental Institute': http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/
But I think if the term isn't useful and/or is going to cause lots of potentially-offensive argument about what 'counts', then we should just bin it. I don't think anybody will miss it!
On RGL we have "Coffee Shops" for places that you would go to to drink coffee, and "Coffee Merchants" for places that you would go to to buy coffee beans. "Cafes" might serve coffee, but if they only have Nescafe instant, they're not coffee shops.
Hm, OK, that's a subtle distinction. (And you might go to a greasy spoon* to drink coffee if you're not fussy about your coffee & just want something warm, brown & caffeinated!) I think it makes sense though so I will try to stick to it...
* which is not a category, but a search for it finds three of the four I can think of in Oxford. Hmm.
Jx