pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.
Ah, a pop joke.
Don’t ya know now
Take my upvote damnit!
As a French, I find pop really endearing and might even include it in my vocabulary.
We have them on the run, boys!
If they showed Canada on this map, you’d think otherwise…
We’re up here drinking our pop while sitting on the chesterfield
Tabernac!
How aboot some fizzy maple.
That’s because Soda was originally said by the most population dense areas of the country.
By default, that gives it a huge advantage in terms of shifting the cultural language. Especially since Hollywood often controls the cultural shifts and narratives of colloquial language.
So this isn’t too surprising. It’s kind of like the whole “Land doesn’t get a vote” thing when you look at the Red vs Blue district voting graphs, without taking into account the majority of people live in the blue areas, and very few people, comparatively, live in the red areas.
This visualization is pretty much the same thing.
As inconsequential as it is, it makes me mildly sad to see things like this become more homogeneous.
While this example is likely inconsequential, consider that it may be a good thing that without regional dialects we may become better at communicating with each other in general.
I’m from GA, and I never understood people calling all soda a coke. Giving someone a Pepsi when they asked for a coke is enough to start an altercation around here – they are not at all considered interchangeable
I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.
You ever say “Scotch tape” when referring to a transparent tape that wasn’t made by 3M?
Is it any different?
I’ve been asked if I want a coke before and was handed a diet ginger beer. in what world are those interchangeable?
It’s like asking for a piece of Scotch tape and being handed a piece of painters tape
It’s pop and I will die on this hill
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. I prefer the word soda. Prepare to die.
You dropped a D bro
You will get the D later ;)
Can you show me any other examples of when people use the latter part of the word when shortening it? Or is this somehow the only acceptable one for you?
Meanwhile in my part of the world
L E M O N A D E
for literally every fizzy drink
Where do you live? That’s horrifying
In Australia, they’re called soft drinks because they have little or no alcohol in them.
We call them soft drinks in America too.
I was today years old when I learned that the soft on soft drink is the opposite of hard in terms of liquor.
Dr Pepper is king either way
The Dr’s less educated, libertine cousin Mr Pibb is even slightly better IMO.
Mr. Pibb, may he rest in peace, is no longer with us… only his edgy gamer brother.
Pop propaganda
Sodageddon
Popaganda
Softdrink
Born in a pop stronghold, and it is still holding. Coke is a brand, not all pop!
sodi pops
But we buried you grandpa. How can you be on lemmy?
i made a deal with the devil
don’t tell gam gam
I grew up almost exclusively hearing “pop,” and use it in casual situations, but I prefer to use “soda” in public. Asking a server what kind of “pop” they have seems odd to me, but at the same time asking a friend if I can grab a “soda” seems odd as well.
Pass me a fizzy beverage, my good sir.
I met him in a swamp down in Dagoba Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda S O D A, soda
I saw the little runt sitting there on a log I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said “Yoda”. Y O D A, Yoda
