are you the type of person who calls a "movie" a "film?"

[datasuspect]

i bet you call "carholes" "garages" too there fancy pants.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Garage? Well la-di-da Mr. French Man!

[graywarrior]

2. I call em "flicks"

I am a way cool fancy pants

[ReliantJ]

6. =porn

[graywarrior]

7. No wonder

[trof]

11. From 'flickers'.

Which is what the early ones did.

[graywarrior]

14. Every day I learn something from you

[leeroysphitz]

3. It really depends on the number of explosions and dick jokes...

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. A film is something to behold

whereas a movie is three or fewer stars out of four.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. I also call a couch, a sofa and I call material, fabric.

That's the way I roll and that is Ms. Fancypants to you, Good Sir! :D

[RandomThoughts]

8. I thought

You make a film, and watch a movie.

Since when the actors are recorded they are recorded on film, and when its projected onto the screen its a moving set of pictures, or a movie.

:shrug:

[intaglio]

9. Speaking the Queen's English

Of course I refer to films as films and garages as garages.


I also call "Band Aid" by it's true British name of "Elastoplast"; I call boots, bonnets and petrol by these correct names. I eat biscuits, sometimes even chocolate ones, and cannot fathom the idea of a biscuit smothered in gravy - oh, and on the subject of food jelly and cream is lovely whilst peanut butter and jam is quite tasty too ...


*wanders off, humming "Land of Hope and Glory"*

[mwooldri]

10. You mean you don't go to the flicks?

And if you do call them films then how do you pronounce it: one syllable (as is common in England) or two (as is common in Scotland) ?

Oh, and biscuits in gravy: they're not biscuits and it isn't gravy. Biscuits are sweet tasting and can have chocolate on them. Gravy is brown-ish and doesn't have pieces of mystery meat in it. There's no word in English to describe what in American is a "biscuit". Savoury Scone is the nearest term I can describe a "biscuit", what "gravy" can be called ... what do you call that "gravy" anyway?

Mark.

[intaglio]

12. Many years ago

far too many - I used to go to the fleapit to watch flicks.

PS I do know about US biscuits, just trying to get someone to rise to the bait - I am a long time user of the giant wooden spoon

[trof]

13. 'Moving pictures' became movies. Then the 'talking pictures' came along.

Talkies!
Wow!

[datasuspect]

18. they were "photoplays" first

[Yavin4]

15. The Word Is "Cinema"

As in "je vais au cinema".

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. I'm still not over the habit of calling them "talkies"; assuming you mean the modern ones

that have sound.

[Bucky]

17. Sometimes I can't believe the words I read with my see-holes on DU.

It almost makes milk come out of my booger holes

[jobycom]

19. I'm the type of person who must divide other persons into types. nt