Author Topic: Where you live, is "appetizing" a noun? (Read 12517 times)

Porter · « **Reply #50 on:** December 02, 2006, 09:18:01 PM »

It was a bizarre dream of Pooka's.

rivka · « **Reply #51 on:** December 02, 2006, 09:55:38 PM »

Ah! I think I remember now.

pooka · « **Reply #52 on:** December 03, 2006, 05:30:37 PM »

Boy that thread was a blast from the past. It turns out I had a hyperlink for "coelacanth" and then the plural. Search found it under "deposition." Then I tried to find the LJ entry I reference in another dream, but I couldn't.

Ela · « **Reply #53 on:** December 12, 2006, 09:36:21 PM »

I have often heard the types of foods you get in the deli referred to as "appetizing." I have always found it a weird use of the word "appetizing." I have never used it myself, but my MIL uses it all the time. And when I lived in the NY-NJ area, it wasn't used quite as commonly as Tante seems to be indicating. Some stores had appetizing departments, but others called those departments the delicatessan department.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #54 on:** December 13, 2006, 10:13:48 AM »

See! I'm not making it up! Ela has heard it, too.

Jonathon · « **Reply #55 on:** December 13, 2006, 10:30:29 AM »

How do we know it's not a conspiracy of Jewish nurses?

Porter · « **Reply #56 on:** December 13, 2006, 10:32:22 AM »

With two or three witnesses, how can I doubt you now?

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #57 on:** December 13, 2006, 10:48:21 AM »

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How do we know it's not a conspiracy of Jewish nurses?

Ela! We've been found out! Quick, meet me at the international banking and nursing conspiracy headquarters, and we'll regroup to infiltrate a new batch of forums!

Ela · « **Reply #58 on:** December 13, 2006, 11:38:52 PM »

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How do we know it's not a conspiracy of Jewish nurses?

Cause my MIL's not a nurse?

Porter · « **Reply #59 on:** December 14, 2006, 07:12:06 AM »

That you know of.

Jonathon · « **Reply #60 on:** December 14, 2006, 09:11:28 AM »

:fear:

pooka · « **Reply #61 on:** December 14, 2006, 02:50:28 PM »

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #62 on:** May 25, 2007, 09:17:22 AM »

So, this came up elsewhere, and I suspect it is another of my endearing regionalisms. In New York, the game that is known as "hopscotch" everywhere is also called "potsy". The potsy is the thing that you throw to mark your place on the grid.

Do any of you folk call this playground game potsy? Have you even heard of potsy? Or did you just think that the "Happy Days" character's name was made up out of nothing?

rivka · « **Reply #63 on:** May 25, 2007, 09:18:28 AM »

I've heard of it, but that's because my Dad is from the same place as that famous tree.

Jonathon · « **Reply #64 on:** May 25, 2007, 09:24:13 AM »

I've never heard that term. The game is hopscotch and the marker is a hoppy taw (I think).

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #65 on:** May 25, 2007, 09:46:34 AM »

A "hoppy taw"? You just made that up so that people will think you are as colorful and regional as I am.

Jonathon · « **Reply #66 on:** May 25, 2007, 09:58:24 AM »

But I am colorful and regional! I say ornery like "ahnry"!

rivka · « **Reply #67 on:** May 25, 2007, 01:48:16 PM »

That's not colorful. That's weird.

"Hoppy taw"

Jonathon · « **Reply #68 on:** May 25, 2007, 02:01:47 PM »

I don't remember making fun of your dialect.

rivka · « **Reply #69 on:** May 25, 2007, 02:10:58 PM »

Having memory problems, huh? *pat pat*

Jonathon · « **Reply #70 on:** May 25, 2007, 02:50:00 PM »

Have I really made fun of your dialect? Because I think I'm going to try to stop. It irked me in the zee/zed thread the other day when some people expressed their pet peeves about regional vocabulary or pronunciation (I don't remember which it was). I should probably try not to be a hypocrite about it.

rivka · « **Reply #71 on:** May 25, 2007, 02:56:11 PM »

Honestly, I'm not sure. I certainly have been teased (but in a friendly way, which I simply figure deserves return), but I can't swear any of it was by you.

I wasn't serious (well, maybe a little, in a

sort of sense), but if it bugs you I'll behave.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #72 on:** August 07, 2007, 06:14:14 AM »

At the end of the story, do you "land up", "end up", or "wind up"? I usually land up doing something, and sometimes I end up doing it, but Rivka claims that no one but me "lands up" doing anything, and that you are all "ending up" or "winding up".

Brinestone · « **Reply #73 on:** August 07, 2007, 06:40:35 AM »

Rivka's experience is true for me. I've never heard "land up."

Farmgirl · « **Reply #74 on:** August 07, 2007, 07:34:24 AM »

I second that. I have never heard the term "land up" in that way.