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obedriverleather

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Does it bother anyone else when someone refers to a sheath as pants for my knife? I have seen several threads lately labeled Got some new pants for my ? brand knife, I know it should not matter and the language seems to change every generation but it does a little, like some one said at work the other day I got new shoes for my truck this weekend, my response was do you mean tires?:confused: and he looked at me like i was the crazy one. maybe i am just getting old :grumpy:or maybe i just like simple things or some combination of both, But you carry a knife in a sheath, you install tires on a truck and i cannot even mention all the slang terms i hear for body parts anymore. Oh Well the way things are going in a few years it will not matter, we will all be speaking Chinese;). I wonder what they call a sheath?
 
I know what you mean. It's annoying. Generally when I hear someone talk like that, I assume they're trying to be "cool" and end up looking the opposite.
 
I've not thought much about it. I wonder if the guy talking about shoes for his truck knows why tires are sometimes refereed to as shoes.
 
OK i gotta ask, why are tires sometimes referred to as shoes? and just for the record i have never been cool a day in my life.:D
 
As long as I can understand the conversation it doesn't matter what wording or grammer style is used.
 
I do think the language changes a little with each generation, i wonder now if that is the reason the old timers would not join in on the conversation with us teenagers 30 some yrs ago, they were not unsociable they just did not know what the heck we were talking about.:D Now excuse me i gotta pull my pants up to my armpits and run some kids outta my yard.
 
obedriverleather said:
I do think the language changes a little with each generation, i wonder now if that is the reason the old timers would not join in on the conversation with us teenagers 30 some yrs ago, they were not unsociable they just did not know what the heck we were talking about.:D Now excuse me i gotta pull my pants up to my armpits and run some kids outta my yard.
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now, THAT was funny. :D
 
I sort of found it strange to start with, but I caught on to it pretty quick. I spend so much time talking to people in other countries that I have just adapted to people using slang I am unfamiliar with. As long as there are enough context clues for me to catch the gist of the conversation then I just go with it. You may be right though...I have no clue what the heck my neighbor's kids are talking about half of the time :)
 
obedriverleather said:
I do think the language changes a little with each generation, i wonder now if that is the reason the old timers would not join in on the conversation with us teenagers 30 some yrs ago, they were not unsociable they just did not know what the heck we were talking about.:D Now excuse me i gotta pull my pants up to my armpits and run some kids outta my yard.
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I agree! That WAS funny!

Sadly, that's the way I feel sometimes....

Robert
 
Thanks guys for all the input, i suppose like everything else change is inevitable and sooner or later if we are lucky all of us will be old men and women just trying to find someone to talk to we can understand. hopefully about knives if we are still allowed to carry one.:eek: Merry Christmas everyone, and yes to us OLD People it is still Christmas.:D
 
obedriverleather said:
Thanks guys for all the input, i suppose like everything else change is inevitable and sooner or later if we are lucky all of us will be old men and women just trying to find someone to talk to we can understand. hopefully about knives if we are still allowed to carry one.:eek: Merry Christmas everyone, and yes to us OLD People it is still Christmas.:D
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Yeah, and never the less...I shall always refer to a sheath as a sheath...unless i slip and use my grandmothers old term... scabbard... :)
 
obedriverleather said:
OK i gotta ask, why are tires sometimes referred to as shoes? and just for the record i have never been cool a day in my life.:D
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There are several words that will never be used to describe me. Cool and graceful are 2 of them. As for the shoes and tires thing. Before automobiles, as we all know, horses were the main form of transportation. If you didn't good care of your horse's hoofs, he could come up lame. Which meant you weren't ridin' him anywhere. Horse shoes protected the horse's hoof and provided traction. So you made sure to keep his shoes in good shape. When automobiles came along, some people referred to tires as "shoes" because of the similarity in function of horse shoes. Then again I could be totally wrong, and the people calling tires shoes are just ignorant.
 
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