Just for Fun

neversleeps · Post by **neversleeps** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:05 pm

SLEEPYCD wrote:Neversleeps,
Thanks for the picture!!!! Where in Minn???

That picture is from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum's Three-Mile Drive in Chaska.

felineperson3 · Post by **felineperson3** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:47 pm

My Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I thought this was interesting as I was born and lived in the Midwest until I was 30. Apparently, I've did some linguistic adapting everywhere we've lived according to these results!

If the sun was shining when it was raining the old adage I always heard was, "it'll be raining at the same time tomorrow."

Born Tired · Post by **Born Tired** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:10 pm

35% General American
30% Dixie
30% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Hey Y'all,
I grew up in Northwest Florida (where it still is the South). As a little girl I remember asking my grandmother "What kind of Coke do you want--grape, orange, Sprite?" If you wanted "The real thing" you asked for a "Cocola"--or maybe even a "Cocoler".
When I moved to New England 15 years ago, nobody knew what a grocery buggy was. And now I live in a house built in 1890 with a cellar not a basement (not that we ever had a basement in the South). And if you ask the locals where someone, is they will tell you "he is down cellar" not "down in the cellar". When I asked if they also say "he is up attic" they looked at me like I was crazy. And when the flowers have wilted, they have "gone by."

Esther

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:47 pm

I love this country. Only here can we all be American but have so many differences in our upbringings and use of the language and all the other fun stuff that goes along with coming from different parts of the country. Variety is definitely the spice of life, amongst some other things, too.

JimH · Post by **JimH** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:16 pm

50% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Born and raised in Joisey. Home of da Brucer and Big Hair!!!!

Jimbo

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:17 pm

JimH wrote:50% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Born and raised in Joisey. Home of da Brucer and Big Hair!!!!

Jimbo

BRUCE!!!!

unclebob · Post by **unclebob** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:00 pm

I prefer to have my HARD drinks mixed with SOFT drinks. For example amber rum and diet Pepsi.

Just quickly skimmed through this thread but I don't think I saw the term soft drink mentioned once.

Did you guys all go to sleep or what?

Bob F

neversleeps · Post by **neversleeps** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:40 pm

unclebob-

Soft drinks wasn't one of the choices if you take the american english dialect test from the first post:

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

So you are forced to choose between Coke, soda, or pop.

(By the way, the correct answer is, of course, POP!)

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:40 pm

neversleeps,

Your blue footed booby looks like you're stamping you legs in a tantrum! I guess it's popping with anger.

...Or sodaing????

O.

neversleeps · Post by **neversleeps** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:17 pm

A tantrum?????? Angry??????????

Do I look angry????????????????????

TheCaptain · Post by **TheCaptain** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:29 pm

50% General American English
45% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
0% Yankee

Born and ruined in Louisiana.

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:31 pm

neversleeps wrote:A tantrum?????? Angry??????????

Do I look angry????????????????????

NS,

I got a red X and no picture. Can you repost again, please? Wouldn't want to miss the photo of probably your tantrum...

lindas88 · Post by **lindas88** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:47 pm

50% General American English
35% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

And I agree with neversleeps...it's pop...sorry Lori...

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:50 pm

lindas88 wrote:50% General American English
35% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

And I agree with neversleeps...it's pop...sorry Lori...

I think we can end it all and call it SODA pop...I think either way, it's an abbreviation of that term, anyway. (I still think it's soda...)

lindas88 · Post by **lindas88** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:58 pm

I always had a discussion on pop/soda with a friend of mine that lives in Michigan...she says soda and I would say pop...Lori has a good idea...call it sodapop...