Comments by "Marcel Audubon" (@Marcel_Audubon) on "POP or SODA?! Regional accents in the U.S. (with @agdwchannel)" video.

  1.  @tonycollins1809 nonsense - that movie is from the '50s, nobody called that shirt a wifebeater until the '90s - do you think they all went to the same classic cinema festival???
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  2. "tennis shoes" definitely didn't "die out in the '90s"
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  3. another reason for the increase in soda to mean carbonated drink over that time period is the death of the soda fountain during the same years ... in my region (N. Illinois) we would never have called a cola drink a "soda" because there was another drink called a soda that was served at soda fountains (namely, the ice cream soda) which has nothing to do with soda pop. As the generations that grew up with soda fountains (they were in every drug store, diner and dime store) died off, the younger people didn't have that same association with the word soda. I still would never say "soda" for a can of carbonated beverage because I worked as a soda jerk in a soda fountain and will forever associate the word soda with an ice cream soda of which I've made thousands and thousands.
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  4. wife beaters were called dago-Ts before they were called wife beaters, so I think that's worse
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  5. urban myth
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  6.  @jefflewis4  you mean a distinction vs. a t-shirt? nah, we called the tanks "'undershirts," t-shirts were never called that, the distinction was always understood without inventing a new word. Wifebeater was always meant as humorous! No store in the history of retail ever marketed them as wifebeaters (your example, with the word actually on the shirt is, again, an attempt at humor - those were being sold as a novelty shirt - haha, funny, right?). Uptights may not react to it that way in 2024, but its origin was in humor and it didn't come from high school or college kids worrying about what their fathers or grandfathers wore, either. There was also always an element of class distinction. White collar, upper middle class men did not go out in public in their "underwear," blue collar and lower class men, including recently arrived immigrants, did. That's where the earlier "dago-t" expression derived from, too. Those immigrant groups were comfortable wearing it as their only shirt which was, traditionally, considered a little tacky to the earlier immigrant groups. These 2 American guys in Germany don't have any depth of linguistic knowledge - they're just blah blah blahing coz they have a camera pointed at them. The one from California is particularly clueless.
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