Regional variation in words

it's because whenever washingtonians see the sun, we experience only sheer terror

 

After spending time in the Northeast and Midwest, I am finally able to face the sun without fear.

 

does anyone else use the phrase 'like you do' in conversation?

 

yep.
i also use "as one does" which is i guess just the me, an intellectual meme version of that

 

lol when I use it, it comes out as an offhand 'like ya do'

 

I only use that one, interestingly, though it's mostly a picked-up phrase from another person who uses it.

But then again I have a legit Bushism in my phrasebook because "For people that like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like" is actually a useful thing to express in the world of "your kink is not my kink." I pick up any phrase that seems even moderately useful.

 

To be fair, that is an actually-fairly-sensible Bushism :P

 

And yet it's one of the most made-fun-of for some reason. It was a standard on the Bushism Calendars.

...I will admit that I am slightly sad that we no longer have those.

 

well, you'll likely be getting trumpism calendars soon, so...

 

A new nugget of ineloquent, sleazy, nonsensical word salad for every month of the year.
Sold with pictures of baby polar bears and cartoon ponies, to balance out the atmospheric filthiness level in your home.

 

@paintcat I genuinely believe that you could sell a sleazy/dirty/etc word of the day calendar and make a profit.

... I mean, I would buy a word-of-the-day calendar that taught me such things as old slang for dicks.

 

Yeah, same! Except it's usually 'as ya do' or 'as tha does', if you wanna be right broad Yorkshire about it XD

 

Same! I tend to phrase it more "as you do", and I have no idea where I picked it up from.

 

I say both "like you do" and "as one does" with no particular rhyme or reason to which one comes out first, I think.

 

I think those phrases are way beyond Yorkshire.

 

Question for the rest of the world. Do you get annoyed when people from the U.S. Call it America?

 

As a Brit, I use 'america' more than the US to refer to the US, even though I do know the distinction. if i want the whole continent I say 'north america'. Thus, it bothers me not at all because I do the same thing. xP

 

As a Canadian, I actually get annoyed about complaints about people from the US calling it America, because the complaint usually includes something along the lines of "Canadians and Mexicans are American too!" and I have literally never thought of myself as "American" or even met another Canadian who thinks of themselves that way. North American, yes; American, no.

(If anything that should apply to people from both North and South America, but I don't think North and South Americans have a cohesive identity any more than people from the Europe-Africa-Asia landmass do.)

 

I call the us america because everyone else does but im like, weirdly aware of it. Its almost a pedantic sort if thing, the united states of america arent the whole thing, its just a part

 

I use 'america' as a shortened version of 'united states of america' because 'USA' really isn't used outside of patriotic chants here