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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jul 7, 2006 15:24:40 GMT -5
Pop or soda? Which do you say? I grew up in Connecticut, and say soda. When I moved to South Carolina, people told me that everyone calls soda Coke. Of course, I have never heard anyone here refer to all kinds of soda as coke, so I believe everyone who told me that is full of shit. Has anyone in the south heard someone refer to any brand of carbonated beverage as coke?
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Shopping cart or buggy? My whole life I called them shopping carts, and then I worked for a supermarket here and everyone called them buggies. What the fuck? I always want to punch people when they say buggy. Actually, I want to punch people for many reasons, but saying buggy is a standout. Of course, I never punch anyone because I'm a pussy. Actually, I punched someone really hard once.
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Press/push or mash? As in "press(push) the record button" vs. "mash the record button". I say press. To me, mashing something is violent, causing a breakdown of what you're mashing. Like mashed potatoes. They're not fecking pressed potatoes.
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This isn't a choice. Why in the south in furniture stores do they pronounce "suite" as "suit". When I pronounce "suite", I say it as "sweet". So why on commercials do I hear ads for "bedroom suits." Fuck! "Bring me my smoking jacket June!"
I eagerly await your insights and insults.
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Post by T. Miller on Jul 7, 2006 17:52:36 GMT -5
I used to say pop as a kid. I got converted to soda though. Shopping cart. Push. Suite.
Buggies sound wierd. Mash sounds really silly, well, actually, ignorant, but I was trying to be nice. So much for that. I hate people saying cement as "see-ment". And filet mignon is not "filet mig-non". Nor does one put ketchup on a filet. Order a hamburger if you're going to bury it in ketchup, and don't bother with filet if it's going to be well done. And I don't understand why here in the south, whether it's an SUV, a Jeep, or anything else other than a sedan or a van, it's a "truck".
If you want funny sounding people though, come to Savannah....
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Post by LEGION on Jul 7, 2006 19:53:39 GMT -5
S'all good y'all.
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 9, 2006 14:26:44 GMT -5
If I remember when I first moved here I used to call soda/pop coke. Now I call all colas coke. Soda will will always be carbonated water to me, and pop a lolly or sucker. It's a shopping cart to me, a buggy is a horse drawn small carridge or a small off road vehicle. I think i used to and still say push a button, sometimes press, but never mash. About furniture I have no idea I so rarely talk in furniture. I think southerners say truck cause it's more masculine and that way there is two less words they have to remember. It seems like every place has a it's wierd habbits. I remember in Netherlands if you ordered fries at a street stand you got a glob of mayo with it, and they looked at you like you were crazy if you asked for ketchup. I think fast food joints where the only place that offered ketchup for fries. In the Hungary of the 80's early 90's you only drank plain water if you were poor or out somewhere like camping otherwise you drank carbonated water. Bottled spring water was not common back then because it was western so it was either very expensive or just not available. I still think it strange that carbonated water is a lux. here.
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Post by seven12 on Jul 9, 2006 16:55:19 GMT -5
Coke is what I call all sodas. The word that disturbs me to no end are words like "decelerate" because the word accelerate covers both speeding up and slowing down. Its just the rate of change of velocity in an object. So when you put your foot on the break you are still accelerating!
Oh yea and about carbonated water being a luxury, it is, when its tonic water and its got some gin some in it.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jul 10, 2006 8:31:18 GMT -5
Mash sounds really silly, well, actually, ignorant, but I was trying to be nice. I feel the same, but I'm glad you said it instead of me. ;D Why? I'm just glad no one has said(or admitted) to using "buggy" or "mash". Those really make me mad for the reason that I like stupid things to make me mad. Oh yeah, for the Columbians here, how does "Huger St." end up getting pronounced as "Hugh-gee St."?
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 10, 2006 11:47:26 GMT -5
Oh yeah, for the Columbians here, how does "Huger St." end up getting pronounced as "Hugh-gee St."? That is a mystery. Maybe it's the way Bucket becomes Bouquet for some people. I still just call it Huger st. what do I care what some vain bastard wanted his name to be pronounced like.
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Post by seven12 on Jul 10, 2006 17:55:27 GMT -5
Why do I call every kind of coke...coke...well probably for the same reaosn we call anything anything. Thats the way we learned it. Mainly its habit. I also call something that shines above the set it belongs to a cadillac. Like if I had a pack of USA golds and a pack a Marlboros, I smoke the cadillacs first.
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Post by seven12 on Jul 10, 2006 17:58:09 GMT -5
Its just slang and every part of the country has their slang. If you are from a rich family you probably never got exposed to alot of it.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jul 11, 2006 7:56:37 GMT -5
Its just slang and every part of the country has their slang. If you are from a rich family you probably never got exposed to alot of it. Who's from a rich family?
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Post by LEGION on Jul 11, 2006 15:36:51 GMT -5
Who's from a rich family? Anyone who drives a Cadillac and smokes Marlboros.
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Post by seven12 on Jul 11, 2006 17:21:43 GMT -5
I dont know I just made the assumption of someone comming from a rich family because where I am from only rich people take that point of view. I apologize for being wrong. And actually I smoke newports and drive a mercedes. But I earned everybit of it, no rich blood in my family. Anyway I didn't say anything about driving a cadillac. I was just trying to show (obviously unsuccesfully) how brand names come tome mean something. You call something a cadillac you are just saying its the best. If you call something a kleenex you are really talking about a tissue. Hell I even see people calling all eyedrops visine. Not surprising that some people call all sodas coke. Its an advertising success when a brand can make their brand name replace the generic name.
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Post by seven12 on Jul 11, 2006 17:47:24 GMT -5
American english is so bastardized anyway being annoyed by little alterations will probably lead to hypertension. I think the fact that language is much like a living and changing creature is actually more to its favor than to its fault.
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Post by Kratos on Jul 11, 2006 20:09:34 GMT -5
ok so i guess it's my turn. i always called sodas drinks, i do use the word buggy instead of shopping cart, the only time i use mash is with potatos (also know as taters on this board along with all of their forms). i've heard the use of the word "cadillac" for the best items but i've never accually used it myself. eyedrops are eyedrops, pepsi is pepsi, coke is coke, etc etc..... But that may be attributed to the fact that i've worked for Eckerd drug for the past nine years. thats my two cents.
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 11, 2006 23:41:29 GMT -5
Beside the point. (Today's) Cadillacs are pieces of shit.
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