Glenn
一切皆苦
- 8 Jan 2004
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I guess that's more of a cajun thing, then. So you don't know about "Fat City?"
Yeah, I hear "cold drink" too but it's mostly people in the ghetto who use it. Mostly everyone else says "coke" or "soft drink."
If you want to get really local, my family uses "ratatené" (although I've never seen it written, so I just came up with the spelling on my own) to refer to what I think everyone else calls "prune fingers." Other people around the area don't seem to have ever heard the word, though.
On a side note, I was thinking about the place names thing, and I changed my mind. I suppose they do qualify as being dialectal; it just struck me as not quite being in the same category for some reason when I first saw it.
Yeah, I hear "cold drink" too but it's mostly people in the ghetto who use it. Mostly everyone else says "coke" or "soft drink."
If you want to get really local, my family uses "ratatené" (although I've never seen it written, so I just came up with the spelling on my own) to refer to what I think everyone else calls "prune fingers." Other people around the area don't seem to have ever heard the word, though.
On a side note, I was thinking about the place names thing, and I changed my mind. I suppose they do qualify as being dialectal; it just struck me as not quite being in the same category for some reason when I first saw it.