Pop, Soda, Cola, or Coke

(Sorry to ruin the thread so fast)

http://www.popvssoda.com/

Alright!! POP it is!!

malmo ends it early as usual. where do you find this stuff? (other than the obvious google search, it's a rhetorical question, really). interesting diagram. i remember my first time being in a restaurant and being asked if i wanted a coke, saying yes, and having them say "what kind?" what the hell? a coke. this was obviously pre-many permutations of coke.

how about this:

in many places, soft drinks are just soda, in others, they are pretty much anything non-alcoholic. where are those?

why does everyone in the south call any soda coke? is it just because the coca cola company is centered in Atlanta? It makes absolutely no sense to say you want a coke if you were about to order a pepsi or any other soda for that matter. I know the south is backwards, but c'mon...

PDUBS wrote:

why does everyone in the south call any soda coke? is it just because the coca cola company is centered in Atlanta? It makes absolutely no sense to say you want a coke if you were about to order a pepsi or any other soda for that matter. I know the south is backwards, but c'mon...

you say you want a "kleenex" when you want a tissue or some people will "xerox" when they are making a copies. isn't saying "everyone in the south" a generalization? Why are all people from the North arrogant asswipes?

Where in his post did he mention what part of the country, or for that matter if he was even in the country?

Who is making a generalization......asswipe?

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Where in his post did he mention what part of the country, or for that matter if he was even in the country?

Who is making a generalization......asswipe?

it takes a humorless drone to point out the obvious

S.B. wrote: where do you find this stuff? (other than the obvious google search, it's a rhetorical question, really).

I believe the original study from where this data came from was a linguistics study comparing regional dialects. If I can find that one I'll post the link.

Actually, it was this image I was searching for.

a similar linguistic difference is the midwestern tendency to use "anymore" as a positive rather than the rest of the country which uses it as a negative (ie "i don't ... anymore", as compared to the Midwest where it's grammatically acceptable to say "anymore, i've been going to the new coffee shop instead of ...").

This isn't quite the survey I was alluding to, but you get the drift. I'm sure some very resourceful person will come through with the right link.

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/

S.B. wrote:

"anymore, i've been going to the new coffee shop instead of ...").

I've lived in the midwest all of my life and I have never used that term and haven't heard anyone else use it.

What part of the midwest is it used?

I second that thought...I have lived in illinois for 13 years and never heard anyone say anything like that....but back to the actual thread I jsut recently transfered schools down to mississippi and that coke thing trips me out. Coke is a brand not soft drinks as a whole.

I think the whole "coke" thing is blown up bullshit. I've lived in the south my entire life, traveled throughout the south, and have never once heard soda referred to as "coke". Never in the south, never anywhere else. Soda.

bloodsport wrote:

PDUBS wrote:

why does everyone in the south call any soda coke? is it just because the coca cola company is centered in Atlanta? It makes absolutely no sense to say you want a coke if you were about to order a pepsi or any other soda for that matter. I know the south is backwards, but c'mon...

you say you want a "kleenex" when you want a tissue or some people will "xerox" when they are making a copies. isn't saying "everyone in the south" a generalization? Why are all people from the North arrogant asswipes?

or "Band Aid"

In reality we southerners say what we want instead of a generic soda. If you want pepsi you say pepsi, a sprite you say "I would like a sprite." Backwards isn't it?

you say you want a "kleenex" when you want a tissue or some people will "xerox" when they are making a copies. isn't saying "everyone in the south" a generalization? Why are all people from the North arrogant asswipes?[/quote]

............when I ask for a kleenex, nobody asks me which kind I would like, and if I asked for a xerox of a report, nobody would ask me which kind I would like!

Unless everybody actually drinks Coke, I think that is pretty funny.

Which kind of Coke would you like sir?

Uhh, actually I don't want regualar, diet or caffeine free. I want a damn Dr. Pepper.

Can we make the south it's own country? They are a completely different culture. The call everything cokes, they eat small alligators like it's chicken, they have flying bugs the size of small fighter planes, they fry the hell out of food and consume 90% of the nations butter, oil and health care.

I did say Pop when it was in bottles (80s), but I think the majority of resturants serve Coca-cola, so it's just better odds to say Coke. For if you say pop they will ask, Sprite, Mtn. Dew, Pepsi, RC, etc.

yeah, but wrote:

............when I ask for a kleenex, nobody asks me which kind I would like, and if I asked for a xerox of a report, nobody would ask me which kind I would like!

yeah but you ask for a "kleenex" do you get upset when you get a "puffs" or "scotts" or generic tissue or are you asking only for a "kleenex" brand?