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11 Feb 2009, 12:35 pm

oh ok

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11 Feb 2009, 12:38 pm

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Linguistics and dialects! My favorite! Off topic but I can't resist.

Actually? You must be talking about people in Michigan or upper NY. I've lived in the sunbelt all my life and we call them "gas stations", too.

We also call soda or pop, "coke" - even if its not a coke. As in:

"Hey, while you're up can you get me a Coke?"
"What kind?"
"I'll have a root beer."

Or

"Hey, while you're up can you get me me a Coke?"
"What kind?"
"I'll have a Pepsi."

Yeah some people do this but I don't at all believe that doing so makes them correct lol its just a bastard use of the word 'coke' like the word 'xerox machine' to mean copy machine. I don't think it has as much to do with dialect differences as people being dumb IMO

Spoken like a true Californian. (I'm a native of the SF Bay Area) It's not dumb - it's conditioning - which can be regional. Here in the Southern US they call everything by a brand name. It used to drive me insane. I now know its just that they like to play a lot looser with the English language than syntax-sensitive "yankees". It still annoys me but I know its not because they're stupid.

Anyway - don't you at least use "kleenex" and "band-aid"?

(Are we going to get in trouble for not talking about washing?) :oops:

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11 Feb 2009, 12:44 pm

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I rinse obsessively. I don't know if it actually matters.. eg will eating soap actually hurt you.. but I just cannot personally stand the idea. If it's going to be clean it needs to be CLEAN and that includes clean from soap!! !

On one April Fools day someone was handing out pieces of soap he got from the joke shop, which looked like sweets.
I doubt it could be that bad

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11 Feb 2009, 12:49 pm

MmeLePen wrote:

I can see how it can be conditioning if everyone in a particular locale says it. I don't think that makes it right though

at some point, someone said it and was wrong and it just caught on.
I do say band-aid, yeah. It's still wrong, tho. I personally do not like 'playing loose' with the english language. I hate it when they add new words to the dictionary just because people use them. That doesn't make it a word IMO! I guess what you say is true, syntax sensitive. I seem to be more so than most people though

(PS I'm an Arizonan, not much different but still. Only lived in Cali for a short time so far)

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11 Feb 2009, 12:55 pm

MmeLePen wrote:

mitharatowen wrote:

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kleenex gets used for tissue, but thats because tissue has a different use, tissues, being thought of as anything tissuey except kleenex, and with crafties, tissue paper.

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11 Feb 2009, 1:41 pm

LOL, now we're talking about linguistics ...

Washing dishes
Washing hands and anything else
What washing means
Linguistics

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11 Feb 2009, 2:10 pm

We always rinse the items.

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11 Feb 2009, 7:00 pm

I don't call paper hankies "kleenex" or "tissues".

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11 Feb 2009, 7:12 pm

I'm guilty of not rinsing *hides*

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11 Feb 2009, 7:42 pm

iuse the dish washer

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11 Feb 2009, 7:44 pm

I recently got a dishwasher in my apartment. I rinse (and sometimes wash with soap if its really icky) so that there is no visible sign of reside and THEN I put it in the dishwasher lol!!

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11 Feb 2009, 8:16 pm

mitharatowen wrote:

I recently got a dishwasher in my apartment. I rinse (and sometimes wash with soap if its really icky) so that there is no visible sign of reside and THEN I put it in the dishwasher lol!!

What a waste.... I rinse before I stick things in the dishwasher, but never wash... Do you only use a rinse cycle?

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11 Feb 2009, 9:00 pm

No. I just want to be very sure that they're clean :lol:

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12 Feb 2009, 12:38 pm

I don't get that ...what was the point of buying the dishwasher?! :lol:

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12 Feb 2009, 12:55 pm

I didn't buy it.. apartment management remodled our kitchens and put in a dishwaser too. But nah I'm just a little bit obsessive about that and want to make sure the dishes are very clean. I guess its because I've had bad dishwasers in the past where they would leave food stuck on there and I don't want that so I make sure they're clean before they even go in lol

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12 Feb 2009, 4:50 pm

Dishwashers aren't very good for washing dishes. They are good at sanitizing clean dishes washed by hand. But one would need sanitizer instead of detergent.

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