Friday OT #2 - That's Not A Thing

[MeanDean]

I'm sensing a trend...

Spousal abuse?

 

[Angie]

I hope this isn't the origin of his use of the term, but look up the term moose knuckle.

I've been praying he hasn't been introduced to that particular term!

 

[FerShizzle]

Wrong.

The full correct term is Soda Pop. Soda is the adjective describing the kind of pop (the noun) you're talking about. It's like red barn. Red is describing the kind of barn. You wouldn't say,
"The cows are in the red."

This is also wrong. Soda is a noun. Pop is a verb.

 

[Cybyassociation]

My wife refers to crayons as "crowns". She's not allowed to teach our child anything.

 

[MeanDean]

This is also wrong. Soda is a noun. Pop is a verb.

Soda can be a noun. Like baking soda.
You're telling me a tootsie pop is not real?

 

[ISpyCy]

Or, "I seen you at Hy-Vee last night."

"We was out n'bout at hah-vee an' i seen ya's in the park, drinkin' one o' dem sodie pops!"

 

[CtownCyclone]

This is also wrong. Soda is a noun. Pop is a verb.

Is it a verb in the sentence below:
I'm going to drink a soda pop.

 

[FerShizzle]

Is it a verb in the sentence below:
I'm going to drink a soda pop.

"Adding some flavor to this soda and seltzer water sure made it pop. What should we call this new libation?"

 

[cyclones500]

Soda can be a noun. Like baking soda.
You're telling me a tootsie pop is not real?

Maybe it's actually "Tootsie Soda."

 

[FerShizzle]

For the record... I like when people call it pop. It's a signifier that flags them for further evaluation. Like self-reporting.



extreme jimlad implied

 

[LarryISU]

My wife always says "in lieu of the fact that...." What she really means is "in light of the fact that...." In 30 years I have never bothered to correct her because it's just not that important. Besides, whenever she does or says something wrong, my standard reaction is to say, "Well, there's that University of Iowa degree working for ya." And a girl can only take so much of that!

 

[urb1]

My mom pronounced cashew as ca-shew, emphasis on the second syllable. As we got older, we would respond with "gesundheit", which would just piss her off.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

Duck, Duck, Gray Duck is INSANITY

Should it say "Duck, Duck, Gray Goose"?

 

[srjclone]

Should it say "Duck, Duck, Gray Goose"?

no?

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

and as for the soda versus pop debate, I'll throw out a curve ball....my family says pop as a plural usually referring to utilizing 2-liters and soda as the singular.

I'll have a soda. Whose going to bring the pop to the reunion.

Okay, I'll bite: "whose" who is going to bring the pop..." Quick, blame autocorrect.

 

[I-stateTheTruth]

"we was wondering...."
"was you going to...."
"they was just thinking about..."

I cringe when I hear these...and the further west you go on I-80, the more you hear it.

"So I says ..."

 

[keepngoal]

Pre-Madonna. You know, the Olivia Newton John era.

 

[harimad]

Sorry if already posted but... IRREGARDLESS IS NOT A WORD!

Correct. I think they mean "irrespective."

 

[Cybyassociation]

"So I says ..."

 

[I-stateTheTruth]

That one time my grandma actually referred to a couch as a "Davenport."

I know that's actually what it is, but you just don't hear it referenced like that anymore.

I was going to ask those of you in the Midwest - I no longer am - if that was still used. I heard that quite a bit growing up. Was talking aboutt it with a Michigander and we looked it up - that was the name of the manufacturer (in Mass.)