Is "DMV" a low class / working class term?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody used DMV when I lived there 1991-1998.

I had to be convinced it was a real thing and this board has gotten me to write it. It's convenient but does sound a bit tacky.

It’s a new term

Stupid language evolving without my explicit permission!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

No but someone who constantly asks about class (and working class? this is not England) is definitely class insecure and not in the ranks if you know what I mean.

[Anonymous]

It's used by a lot of Black residents of the area...

[Anonymous]

It's a term used by transplants.

[Anonymous]

I think it is used most often in a marketing sense. That is why you associate it with the radio.

[Anonymous]

I agree with you. I grew up in NW and Chevy Chase. Now live in Arlington. No one I know calls it DMV. That’s a term for people who have to sit in tons of traffic to commute to work.

[Anonymous]

OP, what about it is cringey to you? Been here since the 80s and have only heard the term within the last 10 years and only locally. No one outside of the "DMV" knows what it means. I don't see anything wrong with it and use it out of convenience when talking to other DC area residents, however if people outside the area ask where I live I just say Maryland, in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

No one in my circle uses DMV as a term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

No but someone who constantly asks about class (and working class? this is not England) is definitely class insecure and not in the ranks if you know what I mean.

+1 and it’s pathetic, sorry to say.

I use “DMV” all the time and never thought twice about it (nor will I going forward).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. I grew up in NW and Chevy Chase. Now live in Arlington. No one I know calls it DMV. That’s a term for people who have to sit in tons of traffic to commute to work.

You are insufferable. I didn’t realize that people like you really exist outside of movie satires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. I grew up in NW and Chevy Chase. Now live in Arlington. No one I know calls it DMV. That’s a term for people who have to sit in tons of traffic to commute to work.

You are insufferable. I didn’t realize that people like you really exist outside of movie satires.

+1 Let's make fun of people's commutes? I bet she's on the threads sniping at people who wfh saying that they should rto!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

How long have you thought that people in “nice” parts of town would not use “DMV”?

[Anonymous]

I like the term and don’t think it’s low class.

Very strange that so many of you think “dmv” is a low class term and others say the term came from the black community.

Put those two together, and this whole thread is concerning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the term and don’t think it’s low class.

Very strange that so many of you think “dmv” is a low class term and others say the term came from the black community.

Put those two together, and this whole thread is concerning.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Stupid language evolving without my explicit permission!

Right??