So I asked him to move in....

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HUGS

tear in my eye Who would have thought two gay guys moving in together would bring everyone so close together.HUGS

Its just sooooo beautiful passes Ntro a tissue soo whens the moving in party then????? thinking about suitable outfit and alcoholic beverages

Looks like he's moving in within the next week YAYSo next weekend is the big party. You're without a doubt invited kiss and hug Now just go and buy that plane ticket and I'll pick you up at the airport hehe

Most of my NY friends tend to be single 'Yeah' people. However, I have noticed that my non-Hispanic Floridian friends use multiple yeahs while my Hispanic Floridian friends use a single yeah (linguistics fascinates me so I tend to look for this sort of stuff). While this is obviously a generalisation, it's true in more cases than it's false among my friends at least.

The "multiple yeah" seem to be New Yorkers of Italian abstraction. Everyone else says, "Yeah", or "Y-e-a-h...".A variety of linguistics threads have appeared in this forum.To stay topical, I'll bet ntro and friend come from the same area, where "soda" is called "pop".

Well I actually grew up in PA and he was born and raised here in OH. It's funny you bring up the Soda and Pop topic because I say Soda and he says Pop. We were just talking about this over the weekend hehe.

I say Soda and he says Pop.Do you say toe-mah'-toe and does he say tuh-mae'-toe? Do you say "eee'-ther" and does he say "i'-ther"?

and this is why the english language is so damn complex.

umm not sure I haven't really disected our language. Just this weekend at my parents I stated I was going downstairs to get a soda and asked if he wanted one and he said sure I'll take a pop. And it sparked the conversation.

I know when i first went out to Purdue in Indiana, I got some weird looks saying soda instead of pop...I look around like, "what?"

ha, where I'm from "sodas" and "pops" are called "cokes". Everything is called coke... dr. pepper, sprite, coka-cola, rootbeer, ect., they're all labled "coke" by the people around here. I remember one time my sister-in-law (who is originally from Oregan) asked my sister and I if we wanted a "pop." So naturally we said "yeah, we'll take a coke." and she left before we could tell her what kind we wanted. Well she comes back with two coca-colas and we were like "ugh, we wanted dr. pepper." She was so confused and it was really fun explaining it to her lol Example: Say I were to ask my sister "Do you want a coke?" she'd say "sure" then I'd say "What kind?" and she'd then say "Code Red Mt. Dew." Maybe it's just a country thing lol I really enjoy learning about stuff like that, it's so much fun compairing how diffrent we talk from other people

Everything is called coke... dr. pepper, sprite, coka-cola, rootbeer, ect., they're all labled "coke" by the people around here.Not criticizing you personally, but that is kind of dumb.

All soda = coke is a country thing that I've encountered. I does not please the Coca Cola company, since they own the trademark. Everywhere outside of your region, coke = Coca Cola.It's like calling cotton swabs Q-Tips (sometimes you get they off-brand kind where the cotton falls off the end), or calling all gelatin desserts Jello (sometimes you get Royal--D'oh!) But it's a lot more confusing with "coke", since you don't even get the same type of product.When you go out for lunch, isn't it easier to just say, "Gimme a diet Dr. Pepper?", rather than "Gimme a coke." "What kind of coke?" "Dr. Pepper coke." "What kind of Dr. Pepper coke?" "Diet Dr. Pepper coke." "Diet Dr. Pepper coke with Nutrasweet?" "No, diet Dr. Pepper coke with that new stuff that doesn't taste as bad." "Large or small diet Dr. Pepper coke with the new stuff?" By now it's almost dinner time.

How is calling a carbinated beverage "coke" any diffrent than calling it "pop" or "soda"? It's just the way people talk in the area I'm from. Intead of saying do you want a "soda" or "pop" we say "coke"... there's nothing wrong or dumb about that in my opinion. People speak diffrent ways in diffrent places... I guess Texans just happens to speak more diffrent than most lol

How is calling a carbinated beverage "coke" any diffrent than calling it "pop" or "soda"?"Pop" and "soda" are generic terms. "Coke" a brand name. Everywhere except in your region, if you ask for a coke, you will get a glass or a bottle of Coca-Cola. It's as if you called all soda "Dr. Pepper".

In reply to: When you go out for lunch, isn't it easier to just say, "Gimme a diet Dr. Pepper?", rather than "Gimme a coke." "What kind of coke?" "Dr. Pepper coke." "What kind of Dr. Pepper coke?" "Diet Dr. Pepper coke." "Diet Dr. Pepper coke with Nutrasweet?" "No, diet Dr. Pepper coke with that new stuff that doesn't taste as bad." "Large or small diet Dr. Pepper coke with the new stuff?" By now it's almost dinner time. Ha ha ha! That is so not the way it goes my friend lol Say I were in a reasturant(ms) and the waiter/waitress asked me what I would like to drink my responce would be "I'd like a Dr. Pepper, please." I wouldn't add in "coke". Do you normally add "soda" or "pop" after you tell them what you want when dinning out? No, you don't. The only time I call a carbinated beverage "coke" is when I ask my sister or someone else if they would like a drink or "coke", and then they would tell what kind they would like. It's the same as saying "soda" or "pop", there is no diffrence really.

Why is it dumb?

It's dumb becasue as Steve said above, "Coke" is a specific drink whereas, soda and pop are nonspecific.
Coke = www.coke.com

We're getting more cyberized every day. "And what would you like to drink?" "Here's the URL."

Well all I can say is that it's a southern thing ^_^ When I go other places (bigger towns and such) I do say "soda" because I know that people in other areas do not say "coke" unless they mean "coca-cola". I was just saying that in the area I am from people say "coke" instead of "soda" or "pop". And yes I know it may sound weird but that's the way it is.