I always call it soda. One time when I was visiting Texas at a fast food restaurant, the cashier asked me if I'd like a coke with my meal. I was confused, because they served Pepsi. I guess pop and soda are both equally weird, but coke is just stupid! It doesn't make sense!

My friends and I start like 99% of our sentences with the word "dude".

My friends and I start like 99% of our sentences with the word "dude".

 

Are you from Mornington? ;)

 

Of course I use plenty of slang, I'm an Australian. I tend to develop a bit of a stutter/mumbling problem around the press/high society because I try to make myself understandable to everybody.

 

I just ask for what I want. Fanta, Coke, Pepsi, Lift, etc etc. If the menu has generic names ie Raspberry, Orange, Cola, etc then I ask for those. When talking about carbonated beverages on a whole, I'll use the term "soft drink" around Australians or I'll attempt to localise by using Soda, Pop, etc.

I always call it soda. One time when I was visiting Texas at a fast food restaurant, the cashier asked me if I'd like a coke with my meal. I was confused, because they served Pepsi. I guess pop and soda are both equally weird, but coke is just stupid! It doesn't make sense!

I think it had to be the fact Coke was one of the first few "sodas", so the word grew into meaning all type of sodas.

 

In Argentina, soft drinks are called Coca (like our English Coke) since soda meant 'club soda' (carbonized water).

I don't think I've used the word "dude" since like grade 5 :lol: And I am from California!

I don't think I've used the word "dude" since like grade 5 :lol: And I am from California!

I don't hear many girls saying "dude" so I think you're safe. :razz:

_{I use some. Don't know what ones off the top of my head, but I do}

My family refers to microwaving something as "nuking it".

 

Same here! :twisted:

_{I use some. Don't know what ones off the top of my head, but I do}

MY EYES!

 

I try to be black and say, "Ya mean."

duuuude

yeah bro

sup dawg

what's good?

 

that's the slang i use

I live in California so I say dude way too much.

 

Haha, we (my friends and I) say dude all the time and we're halfway across the world lol.

Yes, although I'll occasionally slip and use proper english. For example, a few days ago I threatened to slice open my friend's scrotum rather than his ball/nutsack. He acted as thought he had never heard the word before.

 

"When I speak Finnish, I speak like a book, and it sounds silly because everybody uses slang."

 

Actually you don't need the second comma, since it is followed by the word 'and'. Thus, if you removed the clause, as you can do with clauses, you would get an incorrect sentance. IE.

When I speak Finnish and it sounds silly because everyone uses slang.

 

Now follows the the 17 reasons why:

 

1)It is not an instuction to pause at this point, since pausing at this point should specifically be a full stop or a semicolon and the 'and' should be removed, since they are otherwise complete sentance.

 

2)You couldn't be using it as an introduction, since you are already two clauses into the sentance.

 

3)If you removed the clause, as you can do with clauses, you would get an incorrect sentance. IE.

When I speak Finnish and it sounds silly because everyone uses slang.

 

4)Its not before direct speech

 

5)Its not an address

 

6)It is not either side of a parenthetical phrase or clause.

 

7)Its not a list of items.

 

8)It is not a large number

 

9)It is not a non-restrictive clause

 

10)It is not before or after an appositive.

 

11)It is not between a dependant clause and an independant clause. The first comma is an example of this though.

 

12)It is not a consecutive adjective

 

13)In front of a a conjunctive which links two independant clauses. Since you can almost never start a sentance with 'And' it is not an independant sentance.

Unless you are a fan of the serial comma. But even then you are not introducing a new idea, since you are expanding on the point that you sound like you reading from a book.

 

14)You have not omitted a word

 

15)You are not emphasising a verb

 

16)You are not opening or closing a written letter

 

17)It is not before the word 'too' when it means 'also'

 

 

Thus it should be:

 

"When I speak Finnish, which is rarely, I speak too formally - like I am reading the words from a book. I think his sounds silly, since everyone, in Finland, uses slang."

First and second comma indicate a parenthetical clause. The dash to introduce an additional piece of information. The full stop to seperate two sentances, though they could be joined it would be messy. The third comma opens a second clause. The forth and fifth comma indicates a parenthetical clause, since there is the need to be specific.

Or

"When I speak Finnish I speak too formally and it sounds silly; everyone in Finland uses slang."

The semicolon shows there is a link between the two points, even though tehy are both complete sentances.

Or, if I was going to write it.

"In Finland everyone uses slang, so when I speak, in my formal tone, I sound silly."

First comma indicates a conjunctive, followed by a new idea. Second and third comma indicates a parenthetical clause.

 

Well, at least I got my point across. o_O

When I speak Finnish (Incredibly rare) I speak like a book and it sounds silly because nobody doesn't use slang in Finnish.

 

I know one guy who doesn't use any slang words. He's 100% Finnish, so I can't understand why he does that. It sounds so funny when someone speaks Finnish without slang. Like a robot or something.

 

I think the reason everyone uses slang while speaking Finnish is that most words are slow (or hard) to spell.

Yeah, and have eleventeen syllables. But on the other hand, when you do speak slang, everything ends in "ks" or "is". :P