"Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases

[Anonymous]

We use food shopping to mean going to the commissary and grocery shopping meaning going to the (civilian) grocery store. Maybe a military thing?

[Anonymous]

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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!!

Happy New Yorker here who says "on line." Maybe I created the internet.

[Anonymous]

I consider food shopping and grocery shopping to be essentially synonyms. I think my mother always said food shopping. She's 74. It may be somewhat regional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!!

Happy New Yorker here who says "on line." Maybe I created the internet.

Al! Is that you?

[Anonymous]

Languages are constantly evolving, and you will hear many different ways of saying the same thing if you live in cosmopolitan areas.

What the study of languages has told us is that there is no right way to say any thing - there is merely the force of consensus. Scholars have been deploring the dumbing down of their respective languages since humanity could speak

So please, expend your energy elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

I just googled "food shopping." 1.2 billion hits
Grocery shopping - 71 million hits

[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.

It's pretty common in the south.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I consider food shopping and grocery shopping to be essentially synonyms. I think my mother always said food shopping. She's 74. It may be somewhat regional.

Same, right down to the age. My mother is from PA/NJ area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

At Schwegmann's?

Making groceries Schwegmann style. LOL. New Orleans.

Another phrase, make a paycheck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As long as you're cool with other people thinking you're stupid, go on with your bad self.

[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.

There is a "food store"? That sells only food? Where is this food store?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That sounds like old English - back to the times where people sat for paintings.

Picture?! Don't you mean daguerreotype?

[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.

I have. Very annoying and folksy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As long as you're cool with other people thinking you're stupid, go on with your bad self.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

There is a "food store"? That sells only food? Where is this food store?

Yes, there are food stores (stores that sell food), just as there are shoe stores (stores that sell shoes). (We agree that shoe stores don't sell only shoes, right?)