Could We Please Refer to a C@&$! As a Sofa. Thank You.

[Anonymous]

Well, my pants are too tight and I definitely enjoy lying on my couch.

[Anonymous]

I'm lying on my couch reading this sofa thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sofas are more formal with arms. Couches are smaller with one or no armrests. But in modern English, they are used interchangeably.
I have no idea why OP put the word couch in symbols like it is a cuss word.

No way. In my mind they are identical. One isn't more formal or casual.

I think from now on I'm just going to use COUCH in threads to piss the OP off.

Personally, I dont care if you call it a sofa or couch. Most people use the words to mean the same thing.
That said, historically, as a PP pointed out, couch comes from couche, to lay down. It was made for women in tight fitting corsets to be able to relax.

Or as in "Voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir....". Maybe that's OPs beef with it?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

How about davenport?

[Anonymous]

Cunt? Huh? Is that what kids are calling "sofa" these days? God I'm old.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes a person just needs to ask anonymously on the internet where she can get a couch that can withstand abuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Now Tom, didn't your mother tell you never to jump on the sofa, and especially when it's Oprah's!

[Anonymous]

And I was thinking that the Furniture forum is a nice and civil place populated by friendly creatures with impeccable taste...
But no, even here somebody needs some soFaKing chill pill

Well, at least everybody else still seems normal (and funny, too!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sofas are more formal with arms. Couches are smaller with one or no armrests. But in modern English, they are used interchangeably.
I have no idea why OP put the word couch in symbols like it is a cuss word.

I am pretty sure that Modern English is the most commonly used language on DCUM. It may be true that in other languages, or other time periods, or even other locations where they speak Modern English (e.g. Australia) the word "couch" means something that is small and has one or no armrests, but here in the USA "couch" is a synonym for "sofa".

[Anonymous]

In my first interior design class in college, my super old school professor expressed the exact same sentiment. He was a uppity d-bag. Call it whatever you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Now Tom, didn't your mother tell you never to jump on the sofa, and especially when it's Oprah's!

I think we are dating ourselves. Can you believe it's been 10 years already!

[Anonymous]

My grandmother called it a divan. Pronounced "die-van."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my first interior design class in college, my super old school professor expressed the exact same sentiment. He was a uppity d-bag. Call it whatever you want.

It is definitely an "old school" differentiation.

[Anonymous]

Canapé, madame.
Alors, je suis chic.