Regional Dialect time!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2002-09-13 09:22am

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/

Like the rest of my suthern brethren, I call it "Coke" even if it's RC Cola or
Pepsi....yeeeehaaaaaaaaw!

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-09-13 09:23am

Fuckin A

But you'll get none of this 'yeehaaw' shit out of me.

Sienthal · Post by **Sienthal** » 2002-09-13 09:26am

I'm a soda person myself. I didn't know pop was so popular in the northwest.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-09-13 10:09am

I remember a study from this year, where they estimated that there were nearly a million "dialects" of english.

Where dialect is a variation upon the form and vocabulary to such an extent that an outsider to the variation would not be able to understand immediately. Note that this isn't accents, but just variations of word use and sentence structure.

For example 1337-sP33|< is allegedly a dialect of english. You and your friends may have a lot of injokes and other "conversational pieces" that would be inpenetrable to the outsider. ASVS would certainly have its own vocabularly with "Pig-Fucker", "Hat-Fucker", "Flame-bait", "Troll", "Bitch" and "Concession Accepted" at its core.

The mutability of the english language is wonderful. But it also makes it a bitch to learn.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2002-09-13 10:46am

The mutability of the english language is wonderful. But it also makes it a bitch to learn.

Nah...i've learned it after playing video games for a few years and, if I may say so myself, I think I both write and speak english quite good.

Now German on the other hand, I've been unable to grasp even after three years of heavy education

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-09-13 11:24am

The generic term for soft drinks here in California is soda.

Some people might say soda pop.

Nobody says just pop unless they are an immigrant from another state.

Things like this are interesting. Just like a Kleenex is any tissue. Wether it is the brand Kleenex or not.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-09-13 11:57am

I grew up in the Midwestern U.S. and besides actually drinking R.C. we called it "pop".

A few years in the Navy have converted me over to "Soda" which is generally what it's called here in Arizona.

If you offer me a Coke it better be a Coke and not a Pepsi.

Better yet throw me a Mt. Dew.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2002-09-13 12:57pm

Its a soda to me and a pop to most people here in Utah. A Coke is a Coke here. They, not me, also say WARSH, as in I am going to warsh my clothes. Or I am going to warsh my car, don't know why but they do.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-09-13 08:59pm

I can always tell a damn yankee is serving. I ask for a coke and they ask 'is pepsi fine.' They get nervous when I look at them as an answer.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2002-09-14 04:55am

Soda, of course. I'm not stupid, after all.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-09-14 05:03am

Eh, I call it "High sugar content carbonated water that will give me diabetes one day" Too bad I gave up soda

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-09-14 05:21am

It's Coke. Doesn't matter what it is, it's Coke. Not soda, and ESPECIALLY not pop. Not where I work. It gets too confusing with the damned CD playing, the popcorn poping, and soft-spoken people saying "pop" when it sounds like "popcorn" because I can't read lips for shit. (NOT "for beans," by the way...) And "Oh, hell no" is commonly used when someone says something you don't like. Especially at work...

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2002-09-14 05:30am

It don't matter what it is, it's a Coke. 7-UP, it's a Coke, pepsi, it's a Coke, Rootbeer,... well, Rootbeer is Rootbeer, but everything else is a coke.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-09-14 05:31am

Well, you DO have a point there...Strangely enough, even DP is Coke...just not RB or H2O...or "orange drink"...who the hell came up with that one???

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-09-14 08:02am

weemadando wrote:I remember a study from this year, where they estimated that there were nearly a million "dialects" of english.

Where dialect is a variation upon the form and vocabulary to such an extent that an outsider to the variation would not be able to understand immediately. Note that this isn't accents, but just variations of word use and sentence structure.

For example 1337-sP33|< is allegedly a dialect of english. You and your friends may have a lot of injokes and other "conversational pieces" that would be inpenetrable to the outsider. ASVS would certainly have its own vocabularly with "Pig-Fucker", "Hat-Fucker", "Flame-bait", "Troll", "Bitch" and "Concession Accepted" at its core.

The mutability of the english language is wonderful. But it also makes it a bitch to learn.

There is only one real dialect of English that is practically it's own language, Geordie, from the area around New Castle upon Tyne.

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Regional Dialect time!

Regional Dialect time!

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