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As a former retail worker who ran checkouts sometimes, the odds that a supermarket/Target/Wal-Mart/whatever cashier is paying any attention to the poo poo you buy is approximately zero unless they're a bored retiree. You could buy a notepad and write a murder confession on it in block lettering and nobody would notice. There's other poo poo to do or the end of the day to look forward to.
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Jul 15, 2019 19:13
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On the other side of that I've had a cashier ask if I bought scallions or green onions and I start sweating and tripping over my words
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Jul 15, 2019 19:38
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Last night when my wife was checking out, the woman running the register smelled all the produce. She also couldn’t find sweet potatoes or yams on her list of barcodes, she was adamant it wasn’t there. A manager had to be called in, who then showed her a single entry: sweet potato/yam. She may have been a bit low functioning. It was night shift, after all.
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Jul 15, 2019 19:40
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moist turtleneck posted:On the other side of that I've had a cashier ask if I bought scallions or green onions and I start sweating and tripping over my words Something like that is the exception, yeah, if they have to find out what it is to enter it. But anything that scans probably is only looked at long enough to determine where the bar code is.
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Jul 15, 2019 19:44
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Bad Munki posted:Last night when my wife was checking out, the woman running the register smelled all the produce. She also couldn’t find sweet potatoes or yams on her list of barcodes, she was adamant it wasn’t there. A manager had to be called in, who then showed her a single entry: sweet potato/yam. To be fair, those are entirely different vegetables, so combining them makes as much sense as an entry for banana/butternut squash
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Jul 15, 2019 19:46
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moist turtleneck posted:On the other side of that I've had a cashier ask if I bought scallions or green onions and I start sweating and tripping over my words Those are the same thing, though? Could have just answered yes! 
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Jul 15, 2019 19:51
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Tunicate posted:To be fair, those are entirely different vegetables, so combining them makes as much sense as an entry for banana/butternut squash And in actual practice this is about as useful as complaining about not being able to find a PLU for a muskmelon and it's getting rung up as cantaloupe instead.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:06
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Tunicate posted:To be fair, those are entirely different vegetables, so combining them makes as much sense as an entry for banana/butternut squash Yes, but in the majority of the US, the terms are conflated and/or confused to the point of being identical, compounded by the fact that most people here have likely never even actually seen an actual yam. So, the store uses the same barcode, since anybody who says either of those terms actually means, in practice, sweet potato, as that’s all the store sells, regardless of what anyone chooses to call them. Also she was sniffing all the drat produce. And handing random groceries over the register to my wife, like “here’s your box of crackers.” Wife: “...did you want me to bag these?” “Haha no” *takes them back*...repeat multiple times at odd intervals, in between normal bagging steps. And not noticing when half the items she swiped didn’t scan at all. It was an all around weird experience, but not she-was-on-drugs weird.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:08
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Doesn't "yam" historically basically mean "food" in the same sort of way that "apple" means "fruit"? Etymologically speaking?
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Jul 15, 2019 20:17
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If you roll the clock back like 400 years, then it’s a definite maybe. French word for potato is my personal fave: dirt apple. Or, if you go with the apple = fruit approach, dirt fruit.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:26
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Bad Munki posted:If you roll the clock back like 400 years, then it’s a definite maybe. My dad, who isn't a frog, would say "earth apple". Pommes de terre.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:30
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Bad Munki posted:If you roll the clock back like 400 years, then it’s a definite maybe. Earth != dirt. Entirely different things and meanings. No one outside the US refers to soil as dirt.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:31
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I was being a bit liberal in my translation, sure, but it was because "dirt fruit" is more fun to say than "apple of the soil"
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Jul 15, 2019 20:32
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wooger posted:Earth != dirt. Entirely different things and meanings. No one outside the US refers to soil as dirt. When I hear "dirt" I always think of Tremors.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:34
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Jaded Burnout posted:When I hear "dirt" I always think of Tremors. No one outside the U.S. refers to giant sand worms as "Graboids".
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Jul 15, 2019 20:39
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wesleywillis posted:No one outside the U.S. refers to giant sand worms as "Graboids". What's the European stance on rear end Blasters
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Bad Munki posted:What's the European stance on rear end Blasters Arse Exploders?
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Bad Munki posted:What's the European stance on rear end Blasters Oh, you mean arse shitters?
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Jul 15, 2019 20:45
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This is an Earth‐apple.
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Platystemon posted:This is an Earth‐apple. lol why would you project the flat earth onto a sphere, it's going to mess everything up
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wesleywillis posted:My dad, who isn't a frog, would say "earth apple". Pommes de terre. Pomme just means 'fruit', and because apples were some of the most common and widespread they were what people usually meant in the generic. The old french word for oranges was 'pomme d'orenge', or basically 'the fruit of the orange [tree]'. I believe that structure was pretty common although it hasn't survived in many other contexts - in Jersey (which is related) there are still variants like 'pomme de tchene' which is 'fruit of the oak', or oak gall. The etymology of 'Orange' itself is pretty interesting because it was simply the name of the fruit and didn't get repurposed for the color until later on. Prior to the introduction the color we associate with orange might be called 'citrine' or 'saffron', but was often subsumed into another color group - I believe one of the reasons we say robins have red coloring is because that predated the use of orange, so it was considered as a shade of red.
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I have a particular appreciation for "pomegranate", "pomme" apple "granat" seeded. Like other apples don't have seeds. Not least because the name was borrowed for an item whose tight-packed payload reminded French soldiers of the fruit: the grenade.
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Not to derail a little fruit chat, but in a similar vein the letter Y in French is igrec (ee-greck). A Greek I. It's similar in other languages as well. I was 27 when I realised this and mildly ashamed. It took meeting my s/o this, since she is Greek I'm no where near fluent in French, but I did think I retained a a good chunk from high school.
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Old Balls McGee posted:Not to derail a little fruit chat, but in a similar vein the letter Y in French is igrec (ee-greck). A Greek I. It's similar in other languages as well. drat, I'd never realized this, and I'm well over 27. Thanks for sharing. I always thought that was a weird name for a letter.
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Jul 16, 2019 01:18
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Now go look up the history behind the word "ampersand."
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Old Balls McGee posted:Not to derail a little fruit chat, but in a similar vein the letter Y in French is igrec (ee-greck). A Greek I. It's similar in other languages as well. Y is "i griega" in Spanish.
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Bad Munki posted:Now go look up the history behind the word "ampersand." Now the history for “octatherp”.
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I think that might just be a weird US thing. Here I've only ever heard # called "hash" Note that the name hashtag comes from this, not the other way around as some whippersnappers apparently believe.
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GotLag posted:I think that might just be a weird US thing. Here I've only ever heard # called "hash" We usually call in a "pound sign" or "hash" in the US. You only hear octatherp in discussions about trivia or from people who are really serious about making interrobangs a thing.
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unfortunately people now call "#" a hashtag all by itself, not realizing that the actual tag is whatever comes after the hash Language progresses and changes but it doesn't mean we're getting any brighter
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GotLag posted:I think that might just be a weird US thing. Here I've only ever heard # called "hash"
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The Bloop posted:unfortunately people now call "#" a hashtag all by itself, not realizing that the actual tag is whatever comes after the hash Hearing it used like that sincerely in Olympus Has Fallen made me sad.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I always heard # called pound until hashtags became a thing. It makes #MeToo a bit ironic. 
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The Bloop posted:unfortunately people now call "#" a hashtag all by itself, not realizing that the actual tag is whatever comes after the hash Crappy Construction Tales: Language Has Load-Bearing Misapprehensions
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Ashcans posted:Crappy Construction Tales: Language Has Load-Bearing Misapprehensions I'm right up the road I'll bear your load But I'm just drywall HASHTAG ME
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Now you all need to look up the 20+ names for the " ` " symbol. You know, the regular press for the tilde key, on a US keyboard anyway.
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kid sinister posted:Now you all need to look up the 20+ names for the " ` " symbol. You know, the regular press for the tilde key, on a US keyboard anyway. I'll put you in the grave if you disagree with me.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I always heard # called pound until hashtags became a thing. It makes #MeToo a bit ironic. I had to explain to my mom once what #MeToo was all about. It was pretty loving funny.
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kid sinister posted:Now you all need to look up the 20+ names for the " ` " symbol. You know, the regular press for the tilde key, on a US keyboard anyway. You mean the back-tick?
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kid sinister posted:Now you all need to look up the 20+ names for the " ` " symbol. You know, the regular press for the tilde key, on a US keyboard anyway. That’s a grave accent.
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