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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 13, 2015 11:27:40 GMT -5
No, no, no. They're ALL cokes. That doesn't make any sense at all! Orange Crush is coke? Grape soda is coke? Pepsi is coke? Coke is coke.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 13, 2015 11:28:39 GMT -5
I'm curious as to who says gem clip instead of paper clip? My students act as if they have never heard that before. i did live in Baltimore and Atlanta as a child. My mom always called them gem clips but I heard it as "gym" clips. I always wondered what was wrong with her. Same state, further south than you I think. I'd never heard of butter/biscuit anywhere near me either. My grandma used to say sh!t fire all the time. Might even finish the phrase now and then.... "and save matches".
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 13, 2015 11:30:13 GMT -5
No, no, no. They're ALL cokes. That doesn't make any sense at all! Orange Crush is coke? Grape soda is coke? Pepsi is coke? Coke is coke.
Yep. I saw the explanation last page. You want a coke? Yes. What kind? Sprite, coke, dr pepper... And waitresses always ask if Pepsi is ok if they don't serve Coke products. ETA: Kind of like lots of people call tissues Kleenex or a copy machine a Xerox, whether they are or not.
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 13, 2015 11:31:23 GMT -5
That doesn't make any sense at all! Orange Crush is coke? Grape soda is coke? Pepsi is coke? Coke is coke.
Yep. I saw the explanation last page. You want a coke? Yes. What kind? Sprite, coke, dr pepper... And waitresses always ask if Pepsi is ok if they don't serve Coke products. Still doesn't make sense.....
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 13, 2015 11:35:46 GMT -5
That doesn't make any sense at all! Orange Crush is coke? Grape soda is coke? Pepsi is coke? Coke is coke.
Yep. I saw the explanation last page. You want a coke? Yes. What kind? Sprite, coke, dr pepper... And waitresses always ask if Pepsi is ok if they don't serve Coke products. ETA: Kind of like lots of people call tissues Kleenex or a copy machine a Xerox, whether they are or not.That would make sense if they were just talking about cola. Sorry, but Mt. Dew and Coke do not mix!
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 13, 2015 11:38:18 GMT -5
Yep. I saw the explanation last page. You want a coke? Yes. What kind? Sprite, coke, dr pepper... And waitresses always ask if Pepsi is ok if they don't serve Coke products. ETA: Kind of like lots of people call tissues Kleenex or a copy machine a Xerox, whether they are or not.That would make sense if they were just talking about cola. Sorry, but Mt. Dew and Coke do not mix! It makes sense, as much sense as calling sprinkles jimmies and water fountains bubblers. ETA: If it's bottled by Coke or Pepsi and is carbonated, it's a coke.
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Mar 13, 2015 11:44:15 GMT -5
That would make sense if they were just talking about cola. Sorry, but Mt. Dew and Coke do not mix! It makes sense, as much sense as calling sprinkles jimmies and water fountains bubblers. ETA: If it's bottled by Coke or Pepsi and is carbonated, it's a coke. See this is where you lose the argument. Not every carbonated beverage is bottled by Coke or Pepsi so anything that isn't a Coke is a pop!!!
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 13, 2015 11:49:32 GMT -5
It makes sense, as much sense as calling sprinkles jimmies and water fountains bubblers. ETA: If it's bottled by Coke or Pepsi and is carbonated, it's a coke. See this is where you lose the argument. Not every carbonated beverage is bottled by Coke or Pepsi so anything that isn't a Coke is a pop!!! Or Fanta, or Shasta, or Walmart, or Cheerwine, or......... ALL of them. You sound like my 10 year old trying to win the argument. You know good and well what I mean.
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Post by lexxy703 on Mar 13, 2015 11:56:36 GMT -5
See this is where you lose the argument. Not every carbonated beverage is bottled by Coke or Pepsi so anything that isn't a Coke is a pop!!! Or Fanta, or Shasta, or Walmart, or Cheerwine, or......... ALL of them. You sound like my 10 year old trying to win the argument. You know good and well what I mean. You are both wrong. They are all soda.
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Post by skubikky on Mar 13, 2015 12:07:50 GMT -5
I have never ever heard anyone in CA say they "gotta get flat" and I have lived here for the bulk of my life. As noted above, SF is "the City " I suspect that this term is used in many places. In NYC if you're going from one of the boroughs into Manhattan.....you're gonna take the train into the "city" even though technically you're already in the city.
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Post by skubikky on Mar 13, 2015 12:08:15 GMT -5
Question to All: What would people in your area call the following pastry? It's deep-fried dough covered with cinnamon and sugar. Common at fairs and exhibitions, etc., but different places call them different things. Also, I might as well ask: in Canada, the expressions "not bad" or "not too bad" mean "good". Voice inflection counts a bit, but generally speaking if a Canadian replies "not bad" in response to what they think of a brand of salt n' vinegar chips, they do like the chips. I'm told that this same convention doesn't apply in the US. Supposedly "not bad" means "mediocre" or "tolerable" south of the border, with no favourable connotation whatsoever. Is this true? Consider the case where the expression is spoken quickly in a neutral tone of voice. 'Not bad' and 'not too bad' means pretty much the same thing to me as it does in Canada. It is all in how it is said. Another one would be 'not too shabby' which means pretty good too. Beaver tail
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Post by skubikky on Mar 13, 2015 12:10:54 GMT -5
I grew upin Massachusetts and I too used u-ie for a u-turn. But then Vermont and Massaschusetts are neighbors. Shortly after moving down here, I stopped using the term as it was not used and folks looked at me oddly when I did say it. The use of washateria here instead of laundromat threw me off a bit. DH and I use the term "Hang or make a U-ie". We both grew up in CA.
LOL, wouldn't it be fun to have a Navi speak in a regional accent?
The term "U-ie" is used all across this country as well as wherever you find Americans.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Mar 13, 2015 12:20:03 GMT -5
Yep. I saw the explanation last page. You want a coke? Yes. What kind? Sprite, coke, dr pepper... And waitresses always ask if Pepsi is ok if they don't serve Coke products. Still doesn't make sense..... It will never make sense.
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Post by midwestlily on Mar 13, 2015 12:41:32 GMT -5
Actually, sigalert is a website Apparently much more accurate than google for current traffic conditions, as DH found to his great sorrow (he believed google, poor guy). Makes sense that they'd now have a website with that name, but sigalerts go back way before the internet. Used to hear them on the radio. And it's true that those of us from southern California say the 10 and the 405. I've always wondered where the dividing line is -- Santa Barbara? Monterey? The LA County border?
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Post by midwestlily on Mar 13, 2015 12:45:09 GMT -5
Also, the article says that calling someone a Hoosier equals calling them a redneck! Pretty sure it's just a standard term for someone from Indiana.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 13, 2015 13:32:04 GMT -5
Still doesn't make sense..... It will never make sense. Yes it does, you don't want to accept it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2015 13:33:17 GMT -5
Where all do they use "crack a window" as in to open a window a small amount? I never heard it until I moved to the Midwest. We say "crack a window" in Alabama. But I swear we don't say u-ee or whatever.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2015 13:51:45 GMT -5
We say u-ee, we crack windows in Wis. It's been a long time since I have heard anyone say bubbler but some probably still do. I never hear sawbacks but brewskies is pretty common.
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Post by MB-NY on Mar 13, 2015 14:21:56 GMT -5
In South Florida and much of the South, it's "crack a window". I know this first hand from when I was a kid, and my parents would leave me in the car in the parking lot while they were in a store shopping, much like you would have done with a dog. I guess the child and animal welfare laws that came many years later were supposed to put and end to all that.
PS; it's Coke.
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Mar 13, 2015 14:25:27 GMT -5
We say "crack a/the window" here too. It is just much easier than saying "roll the window down a little bit".
Yes a coke is a coke.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 13, 2015 14:31:38 GMT -5
This is why I MB, he speaks my language
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Mar 13, 2015 15:01:54 GMT -5
A Coke is a Coke. All other carbonated soft drinks are whatever the name on the bottle or can reads.
Call them pop, call them soda, call them by their actual name. Just don't call them Coke unless they are.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 13, 2015 15:29:24 GMT -5
A Coke is a Coke. All other carbonated soft drinks are whatever the name on the bottle or can reads.
Call them pop, call them soda, call them by their actual name. Just don't call them Coke unless they are. I'll call them whatever I please, you are neither my mother nor my English teacher. You are free to keep using your weird names for things without my input.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 13, 2015 15:30:01 GMT -5
P.S. They're still cokes, ALL of them!!!!
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Post by yogiii on Mar 13, 2015 17:53:07 GMT -5
Where all do they use "crack a window" as in to open a window a small amount? I never heard it until I moved to the Midwest. I'm in New England and we crack windows up here but who says "Where all?"
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Post by yogiii on Mar 13, 2015 17:56:25 GMT -5
P.S. They're still cokes, ALL of them!!!! I won't even touch that. I like you the way you are
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 13, 2015 21:01:05 GMT -5
P.S. They're still cokes, ALL of them!!!! Nope. A grape soda is not a coke. A root beer is not a coke. A Coke is a coke.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 14, 2015 1:14:50 GMT -5
Some more questions to all: - Is it a "crank call" or a "prank call"?
- Read the sentence "Russia has nuclear weapons." out loud, first as though you're talking naturally at a normal speed, and then as though you're mentioning it very quickly and brusquely to somebody in an argument. In each case, does it come out "new-clee-ar" or "new-cue-lar" (or something else)?
- Besides "commotion", what's the first word that comes to mind to describe a great commotion?
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Mar 14, 2015 10:14:58 GMT -5
Question to All: What would people in your area call the following pastry? It's deep-fried dough covered with cinnamon and sugar. Common at fairs and exhibitions, etc., but different places call them different things. Also, I might as well ask: in Canada, the expressions "not bad" or "not too bad" mean "good". Voice inflection counts a bit, but generally speaking if a Canadian replies "not bad" in response to what they think of a brand of salt n' vinegar chips, they do like the chips. I'm told that this same convention doesn't apply in the US. Supposedly "not bad" means "mediocre" or "tolerable" south of the border, with no favourable connotation whatsoever. Is this true? Consider the case where the expression is spoken quickly in a neutral tone of voice. That yummy thing is an elephant ear!!!
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 14, 2015 12:08:24 GMT -5
Question to All: What would people in your area call the following pastry? It's deep-fried dough covered with cinnamon and sugar. Common at fairs and exhibitions, etc., but different places call them different things. Also, I might as well ask: in Canada, the expressions "not bad" or "not too bad" mean "good". Voice inflection counts a bit, but generally speaking if a Canadian replies "not bad" in response to what they think of a brand of salt n' vinegar chips, they do like the chips. I'm told that this same convention doesn't apply in the US. Supposedly "not bad" means "mediocre" or "tolerable" south of the border, with no favourable connotation whatsoever. Is this true? Consider the case where the expression is spoken quickly in a neutral tone of voice. That yummy thing is an elephant ear!!! It's a beaver tail. It even says so right on the paper it's on.
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