Panties are under pants.
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Let Me Ax You This . . .
- Thread starter Skwim
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Then why not just say pants? That's what we call them. Panties sounds like little girl talk.
"Panties" doesn't really mean "pants" here.
It refers to girly's dainties.
Yes, I'm aware. I call my underwear pants, as do men call theirs pants. The thing you put over those are trousers or jeans or a skirt or whatever.
You refer to your "drawers" as "pants"?
That's abominable!
"Trousers"...what an old tymie way to say "pants".
What are you.....a 1920s flapper?
So, what I see here is a whole lotta people not liking that language continues to grow and change daily...
The idea that there is a set of rules for spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., has only existed since the late 1500s, when England decided that it was going to administer a world-spanning empire. Then, the Dons of Cambridge and Oxford came out with somewhat differing sets of rules...and today we continue to argue over where to place a comma, whether it's color or colour, and the like.
The idea that there is a set of rules for spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., has only existed since the late 1500s, when England decided that it was going to administer a world-spanning empire. Then, the Dons of Cambridge and Oxford came out with somewhat differing sets of rules...and today we continue to argue over where to place a comma, whether it's color or colour, and the like.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Engineers? What do engineers know about pronunciations? Hell, I've even heard them pronounce "bacon" as bake-un
(The last one's kind of cute though.)As well it shouldn't. Time marches on. I get the idea you probably still pronounce "quandary" stressing the second syllable, roughly rhyming with "yon fairy" (it's original pronunciation) instead of its modern pronunciation that rhymes with laundry.
You'd lose that bet. I use "enormity" to mean god-awful biggerness.
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Nah, just a Brit
Here, pants always refers to underwear of either sex.
We invented turbines.
We designed turbines.
We named turbines.
Where on Earth did you get those weird pronunciations?Hell, I've even heard them pronounce "bacon" as bake-un(proper pronunciation: bake-in). And don't get me started on engineers from Michigan, who butcher such easy words like "Milk" (melk or malk) "mirror" (meer), "Nuclear" (nuke-yuh-ler), "thaw" (dethaw).
Sounds like you're just quoting Jimmy Carter.
Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!
The enormity of your language butchery makes God cry.
Interchangeable underwear....for guys & gals?Nah, just a Brit
Sounds pretty illicit to me.
Actually G-d was the first one to do it at the Babel Tower
Would this make Skwim godlike?Actually G-d was the first one to do it at the Babel Tower
Skwim
Veteran Member
I recall this "tur bine" abomination beginning in the news media.
It sounds utterly ignant.
You can sound like some boob on Fox News or CNBC if you want.
But I'll pass on that.
SabahTheLoner
Master of the Art of Couch Potato Cuddles
Scientifically it's not actually wrong but a part of linguistics and sound shifts.
SabahTheLoner
Master of the Art of Couch Potato Cuddles
To Americans, panties are what you wear under pants (trousers). I usually just call those "underwear" and not "panties" just because I don't really like the sound of the latter either.
Hanging out on college campuses for a few years, I couldn't stand the way "yeah" had morphed into "yahhh" in everyday speech along with the sudden emergence of the word "like" multiple times in every sentence, until one day I decided to put my prejudices to the side and really listen to one of these conversations, and now I know: it isn't really nonsense, it can only be a new form of binary where "like" represents 1, and "yahhhh" stands for 0.
So a typical conversation heard on a college campus today, say for instance, "Likeyahhhlikelikeyahhhlikeyahhlike yahhlikeyahhyahhyahlikeyahhyahh likeyahhlikelikelikeyahhlikeyahh" would be meant to be interpreted as 1011010 01000100 10111010.
So really, it's genius.
And here I was convinced that young people were just becoming a bunch of sub-lingual nitwits.
Ha Ha, jokes on me.
So a typical conversation heard on a college campus today, say for instance, "Likeyahhhlikelikeyahhhlikeyahhlike yahhlikeyahhyahhyahlikeyahhyahh likeyahhlikelikelikeyahhlikeyahh" would be meant to be interpreted as 1011010 01000100 10111010.
So really, it's genius.
And here I was convinced that young people were just becoming a bunch of sub-lingual nitwits.
Ha Ha, jokes on me.
"Wolf" pronounced "woof." What happened to the "L?"
"Gulf" pronounced "golf." I hear "Golf of Mexico" and picture a greens and sand traps.
"Shenandoah" pronounced "Shanendoah." Look how it's spelled: Shen-an, not shan-en.
"Voila" pronounced "wala." How did the V get lost? It's not silent.
"Gulf" pronounced "golf." I hear "Golf of Mexico" and picture a greens and sand traps.
"Shenandoah" pronounced "Shanendoah." Look how it's spelled: Shen-an, not shan-en.
"Voila" pronounced "wala." How did the V get lost? It's not silent.
For all intensive purposes, I'll be very pacific with my response. Well, supposably anyway.