Barrel Stands (and other weird desires)
Renatus:
Quote from: Liss on 2005 August 03, 07:51:49
It's even different East Coast American/West Coast American.
You don't even have to go across the continent - everything is different from state to state. I had quite a lot of culture shock moving from Oregon to California! The slang was just different enough to confuse me, and the attitudes are completely different. Considering that most states are the size of your average European country, I suppose it's nothing out of the ordinary that the cultures are different, but I wasn't expecting it at all.
(This, by the way, is why it's rather silly to generalise about Americans as if we were all one culture. We really aren't, but the glossed-over, dumbed down media we export can make it seem like that.)
nothingbutsims:
Exactly - don't the southerners call it a "soda" and the northerners call it "pop"?
Trubble:
Here we call it a "fizzy drink" :)
LK:
I've heard that one.
And we say "pop" in the Midwest, too. It's easier in Spain, though, as all you have to say is "I'll have a Coke" and they'll give you one, because that's literally all they have. That and Sprite. And that's IT. And no free refills!
(How many pops/sodas/soda pops/fizzy drinks/carbonated beverages do you have in England? And do you have free refills? Because they're really what freedom is all about.)
Trubble:
We have several hundred million [/exaggeration] different types of fizzy drink - including Coke and Sprite. Free refills? As if. I've never seen that be the case anyway.
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