"Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's another one:
A picture "made" instead of "taken"-
"Have you had your picture made yet?" or "I went to a great photographer to have my picture made"
It sounds so awkward!

I've never heard someone say that ever.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do some people say "food shopping" instead of just grocery shopping? It sounds so simple-minded, like something a child would say. Major pet peeve. Any others?

I use the phrase "food shopping" when I go to the food store to buy food.

I use the phrase "grocery shopping" when I go to the grocery store to buy groceries.

This is a fairly easy distinction, OP.

+1. It sounds pretty simplistic if you say you were grocery shopping and you only bought food. It makes it look like you don't know the meaning of a simple word like grocery and thought groceries were only food. Food shopping when you only buy food is accurate, not simple-minded.

[Anonymous]

I can't even imagine noticing such a thing, much less getting mad about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it's regional, but I hate "standing on line" instead of "in line"

omg, I hate that! Are you actually ON the line, standing on top of it? Or are you just connected to the internet at the same time?

Exactly!!!!! "Online" is on the internet! "In line" is waiting with other people for something!!

I know where it's from, and we don't give a crap what you all think. We were standing on line before the Internet was even invented. I am not a sheep to meekly stand in a line, I'm standing on the damn thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do some people say "food shopping" instead of just grocery shopping? It sounds so simple-minded, like something a child would say. Major pet peeve. Any others?

I use the phrase "food shopping" when I go to the food store to buy food.

I use the phrase "grocery shopping" when I go to the grocery store to buy groceries.

This is a fairly easy distinction, OP.

I do the same. We only buy food at WF so my DD knows that after church we will go food shopping. If I want to pick up paper products, detergent, and some juice boxes at Target after field hockey practice, I will say "I need to grocery shop."

[Anonymous]

We use to say "making groceries". Where you at?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it's regional, but I hate "standing on line" instead of "in line"

Me too!

I also can't stand when people say they are doing "the splits" rather than saying they are doing "a split".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do some people say "food shopping" instead of just grocery shopping? It sounds so simple-minded, like something a child would say. Major pet peeve. Any others?

Because they are shopping for food. Just like people say "shoe shopping" when they are shopping shoes, and "clothes shopping" when they are shopping for clothes, and "furniture shopping" when they are shopping for furniture. And "window shopping" when they are shopping for windows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do some people say "food shopping" instead of just grocery shopping? It sounds so simple-minded, like something a child would say. Major pet peeve. Any others?

My family says that, but English was our second language learned and that's how it literally translates.

You may want to get a hobby if these types of things bother you so much. Or take up yoga?

[Anonymous]

Simple people are the ones who are bothered by these types of things OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We use to say "making groceries". Where you at?

At Schwegmann's?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it's regional, but I hate "standing on line" instead of "in line"

Me too!

I also can't stand when people say they are doing "the splits" rather than saying they are doing "a split".

Doing "the splits" refers to the gymnastic move. Doing "a split" means you are separating from your SO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it's regional, but I hate "standing on line" instead of "in line"

Me too!

I also can't stand when people say they are doing "the splits" rather than saying they are doing "a split".

Doing "the splits" refers to the gymnastic move. Doing "a split" means you are separating from your SO.

Where are you from?

[Anonymous]

My mom always called it "food shopping" when she went to the A&P or Shop-Rite (in NJ). My brother and I always called it that too, until we both moved to the DC area and found out everyone around here called it "grocery shopping." Trying to change, but it only works sometimes....

[Anonymous]

Iv'e never heard anyone say any of these phrases.