Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 08:55     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
I grew up in North Jersey where we said food shopping and now I live in SC where we say grocery shopping. I also grew up saying I was standing on line and now I say I'm standing in line. I've heard many people in SC say they were going to have their picture made when they were going to a photographer to have their picture taken.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 12:57     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
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Anonymous wrote:I hate that southern phrase: don't be ugly.


I actually love that phrase and find it useful. So much ugly behavior, ugly remarks, etc.


I tend to use that too because my mom did. Also, "lousy" You don't hear that much these days. They are good words for conveying a specific sentiment, I guess. And probably a regional and or generational
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 12:45     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
Anonymous wrote:I hate that southern phrase: don't be ugly.


I actually love that phrase and find it useful. So much ugly behavior, ugly remarks, etc.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 12:13     Subject: Re:"Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
Anonymous wrote:I hate the expression "if you will." What if I won't?


I always think that too, but I have been told repeatedly on DCUM that this literal-mindedness is an unlovely personal characteristic.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 12:10     Subject: Re:"Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
I hate the expression "if you will." What if I won't?
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 12:00     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
Yes, but they would think you were uneducated.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 11:50     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
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Anonymous wrote:I said that on accident.


Can't stand that one. Also, "ignorant" as a synonym for "rude." That is ignorant.


On accident/on purpose makes a lot more sense than by accident/on purpose. By accident/by purpose would make a lot more sense too, but I've never heard that. I wonder why.


No, it doesn't. It may make it consistent but it only if you treat letters as symbols and disregard the definition of the word. "On accident" is gibberish. "By accident" implies it was caused by an accident; things are not caused on an accident. "By purpose" is equally weird -- the idiom is "on purpose."


Gibberish? I am pretty sure that if somebody told you that they did something on accident, you would know what they meant.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 11:46     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I said that on accident.


Can't stand that one. Also, "ignorant" as a synonym for "rude." That is ignorant.


On accident/on purpose makes a lot more sense than by accident/on purpose. By accident/by purpose would make a lot more sense too, but I've never heard that. I wonder why.


No, it doesn't. It may make it consistent but it only if you treat letters as symbols and disregard the definition of the word. "On accident" is gibberish. "By accident" implies it was caused by an accident; things are not caused on an accident. "By purpose" is equally weird -- the idiom is "on purpose."
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 11:36     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
Wow can't believe you people are so close minded. Wtf language is rich and evolving. I love me some regional dialects!
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 11:32     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
Uggggh..."hating on"
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 07:55     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
Anonymous wrote:I also hate the phrase "grandbabies."


You're hating on babies?
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 07:52     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
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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".



+1
In gymnastics (or cheerleading) you do a split. It might be a regular split or a russian split, but you just do one. One split. A split.


Thank you, PP. Thank you. Drives me crazy. How many legs do people have that do "the splits"?!


Well, there's a right split, a left split, and a middle split: the splits.





Middle split? You clearly know nothing about this.



Well, besides 10 years of gymnastics & cheerleading.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Middle+split


Only 10 years?
Did you get all the way up to advanced stuff? Did you do "the somersaults" and "the backbends"?!!
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 07:49     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
Anonymous wrote:I hate that southern phrase: don't be ugly.


Why? Ugly is an action / behavior, not a physical state of being. You know: pretty is as pretty does.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 07:47     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
I also hate the phrase "grandbabies."
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2016 07:40     Subject: "Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases
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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.


Do you also "save the clothes"?!

That used to drive me crazy when my Dad told me this when he meant put the laundry away!