we USED to 'practice' until we had a talented friend come play with us, so NOW we 'rehearse'.

can we apply this conversation to cars and automobiles?

Who the fuck says automobile?

Besides Grandpa from Sixteen Candles, that is.

Mayfair wrote:I only use 'film' for comedic effect like when talking about Caddy Shack or the like.

You like Caddy Shack, too?

Capital!

I didn't know you were such a devoted fan of cinema.

Good show!

I'm English but "Movie" easily trips off my tongue also the word "cops" (I've had the piss taken out of me for this, perhaps rightly). I use "film" too.

I'm sorry but I dislike the word "dude" uttered by anyone from the UK. I once heard an English guy use the term "parking lot" with a straight face, WTF?.

I accept that I'm totally inconsistent on this one.

"Movie" and "film" are synonyms; they refer to the same thing.

Overthinking every word that comes out of your mouth? Crap!

Wow! I was thinking of starting this thread not so long ago because I really hate the word "film". Maybe it's because it seems like it's usually used by someone talking about some movie I've never seen and probably wouldn't understand anyways because I'm simple.

Movie!

j_harvey wrote:Reminds me of the discussion my band had last week. Is it "practice" or "rehearsal"?

To me:
rock music = practice
theater = rehearsal

I like when my rock friends refer to my theater friends' rehearsals as "practices", and my theater friends refer to my rock friends' practices as "rehearsals".


Chapter Two: Good looking out!

Mose Varty-Seppanen wrote: I once heard an English guy use the term "parking lot" with a straight face, WTF?.

What do you guys call them?

Car hole?

j_harvey wrote:

Car hole?

Food shovel.

j_harvey wrote:

Mose Varty-Seppanen wrote: I once heard an English guy use the term "parking lot" with a straight face, WTF?.

What do you guys call them?

Car hole?

Heh. In parking lots, my brother-in-law used to jokingly yell out the window, in his best backwoods North Carolina accent, "Sumbuddy fine me a parkin' hole!" when I was much younger. Never failed to crack me up.

I believe the English refer to them as car parks. As if, after you leave your car, it cavorts with all the other cars on waterslides and carousels.