Oh the things we take for grantedFollow

How about the word "supposedly"? I've heard people say "supposably".

And Band-Aid and bandage are used interchangeably.

Same for Kleenex and tissue.

It happens. You'll live.

I say "soda" instead of "pop" like most people say. And I hear that in some places all sodas, regardless of brand name are referred to as "Coke".

^ Cashed where I'm from.

I knew a guy from.. somewhere else who said "it's beat". He also used "beat" for an adjective for something bad or disappointing. Long after he died of a drug overdose I still use the word alot... and often I get funny looks. For awhile there was a group of us using it... like our own little dialect.


Funny.. around alot of my friends I'll randomly blurt out Gaelic expressions (got to use it or lose it!)... and a few picked them up and still use them... not really in any correct context.. but I was thinking about waht would happen if a group of us here started speaking our own interpretations of this language..
how we would inevitably start developing our our kind of accent for it and our own tones and inflections and basically create a kind of mini-offshoot of another language.. completely isolated from any true native speaker...

Things like that facinate me...

We Americans will never truly know waht an American Accent sounds like.... we can have an idea.. but how could we truly know? Maybe I'm just thinking this because I'm not fluent in any other languages...

a British accent and an Austrailian accent sound nearly indentical to me.. Sometimes American accents remind me of Irish accents... I have asked French people about the way that French Canadians speak.. and it seems like the difference is very similar to the diffferences in American and British..


god I'm a ******* do[Aqua][/Aqua]rk

Map with colored regions.

I live in one of the "Coke" areas.


Waitress: What would you like to drink?
Customer: Coke.
Waitress: What kind?
Customer: Just regular coke.

I call it the remote now, but when I was younger I called it what my parents did (naturally).

We called it the "TV thing".

Seems pretty silly looking back at it.

I drink soda and my bowls are cashed.
I eat grinders from subway from time to time.
My grampa used to call the remote control a "clicker".
I always have the urge to punch people in the throat who use the word supposably and irregardless.

"supposably" is a word.. and its meaning is seperate from "supposedly".

ie- The supposedly intelligent person did something dumb.
ie- Supposably, if we do this, we shouldn't get caught.

The people who hear using it are correct.. actually, very much so. It's the people who use "supposedly" for both instances who are incorrect.

So is copy or xerox. My boss tells me to xerox these papers while the secratary says I got those copies for you, and I wear nylons.

Edited, Thu May 4 03:18:16 2006 by DVEight

Nothing to see move along.

Edited, Thu May 4 05:52:45 2006 by webwierdo

My remote is a "clicker."


Or sometimes just "remote."

We call the remote a "flicker" and we use it to "flick" (funnily enough). They are "Fizzy drinks". We call the television "the box". And I wear "tights". But only on a weekend.



Thats actually a pretty common mistake, and makes it quite amusing to listen to American actors trying to sound British. Still I assume that British actors trying to sound American is just as comical to you guys.