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Someone explain this dialect shift to me.
Both myself, my highschool mates, and every motherfucker both American and foreign in my university speak in specifics. We see Dr. Pepper, the middle aged and elderly say soda. We see Mountain Dew Voltage, they see soda. We see Powerade, they see Gatorade. Etc etc.
I first noticed this with things such as how we say Xbox One, they same "games", we say PC, etc etc etc etc, though I just wrote this off as we grew up with tech and they didn't, but I realize now that this applies to damn near everything. They say they like football, we say we like the Cowboys (I don't please don't shoot). They say we go to school/ college, we say we go to university.
TL;DR why do older generations talk much more broadly than the younger adults? Is it true across the spectrum, or is this a new age concept? Pic unrelated
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They didn't grow up with it, so to them it all looks the same because they don't care about the tiny details used for distinction. Have you ever had a kid come up to you telling you about Minecraft, and all the different types of building materials, characters, and levels despite it all looking the same to you? It's like that.
One day you'll be old too OP.
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>>3352860
>One day you'll be old too, OP
Say it ain't so, anon. No, but you do you have a point, all the shitty details of everything past 1.6 on MC is fucking lost on me now
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>>3352850
We have more important things to worry about than what type of pop you like, its just pop.
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