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MasterDRD wrote:

IG_urban wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:

IG_urban wrote:

DarkAngelHopeful wrote:DarkAngelHopeful

Im glad you put your name at the end of your post, just in case we all forgot what your name is.

I'm really resisting pointing out the irony of your statement.

-Vladsimpaler

Why? I don't give a gak.

Yeah, my name is in my signature, where it is supposed to go, if one is so inclined....I don't include it at the end of every post as part of the text.

I fail to see any significant difference between ending your post with your name and putting it in your sig... Either way, it's below all your words.
And as previously stated, in Minnesota it's called (rightfully) pop.

With great pleasure,
MasterDRD

HI. I'M RUBIKSNOOB


Yeah, it really isn't a big deal.



RUBIKSNOOB

MasterDRD wrote:I fail to see any significant difference between ending your post with your name and putting it in your sig... Either way, it's below all your words.
And as previously stated, in Minnesota it's called (rightfully) pop.

With great pleasure,
MasterDRD

have at it, I really don't care. I think it's annoying, but you can do it all you want, guy.

rubiksnoob wrote:HI. I'M RUBIKSNOOB


Yeah, it really isn't a big deal.



RUBIKSNOOB

as long as you are having fun, that is what counts!

I have updated the regional listing on my first post according to dakka for what a non-alcoholic carbonated beverage is called.

Albatross wrote:

Infreak wrote:Who knows how colloquialisms develop. However, I imagine that those in the southern states call it "coke" because Coke was created in the south.

Yeah, it's weird when people use the brand to refer to the thing - a lot of people call vacuum-cleaners 'hoovers' here.

Or like your railway stations, when announcements are made, they come over the "Tannoy" (which is a brand, it's a speaker manufacturer branding) not the (generic) 'loudspeaker'.

It's a common thing. It's generally the first or best known product that gets the other similar products named after it.

We call felt tip markers 'textas' because the most common brand at the time was TEXTA.
A duvet cover is called a 'doona' because that was the one brand that was promoted - the Kimpton Doona.
The portable coolers most of us take away on picnics and trips are called "eskies" (the manufacturer was Eskimo, and they called their product 'the esky').
Most foaming, golden alcoholic beverage made from barley and hops is called 'beer' - except XXXX which is just "horsep*ss" (we have even more colourful names for foreign beers that don't measure up, too. Like Bud.)

I suspect that someone once wrote 'Beer' on the first batch of XXXX.
Someone tasted it, realised it was some sort of mid-strength beer-flavoured dishwater, and crossed out the letters. Then a Queenslander saw that it sort of looked like beer and sold it anyway.

I like Newcastle - they appreciate good beers. By beer I mean ale. By appreciate I mean provide. There aren't many places you can get what is known as 'brown' on tap, but every second pub in Newcastle is one of them.

Ha ha! Good point there mate, I second that!

But seriously Chromedog! Tannoy? You're not actually saying that you listen out for railway announcements on the Tannoy do you?

Although I see what you're saying and I always thought doona's were the name not the product...I suppose that should have been more obvious!

Oh, gotta go, someone just called over the tannoy that the railamatron is coming!

Using the brand name instead of a generic name happens all of the time.

Kleenex for other brands of tissues.

Sheetrock other brands of wallbord.

Coke of other pop or sodas.

Ziploc for locking baggies.

I suppose it goes by the most popular product of the line or the original product.

I think in the U.S. the soda/pop, coke thing is a North-South event. In Georgia (where I am) the 'fabulous' Coca Cola factory is ever dominant so when you eat out "Do you have coke?" means "Do you have Coke products?" A few thinking people I've met ask "What soda (or soft drink) do you carry?"

Another example of weird U.S. dialect is the shopping cart. In the south I hear buggy and my family in New Jersey say wagon. A co-worker confirmed in New York it's also called a wagon.

Then again in Jersey they have Wa-Wa's