On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 7:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > "The only other oddity I found was if I was at a restaurant and I asked the > server is there was a beer brand at a discounted price that night I asked > 'what beer is on sale?' She replied 'all our beer is on sale, do you mean > special?'." > > hmmmmm. I've never consciously thought about that before, but that *is* > an American linguistics oddity. I guess the guiding rule is if you're > shopping in a store, discounted items are "on sale"...but if you're in a > restaurant/bar, discounted items are "tonight's special". > > I may be oversimplifying it, if only because this is the first time in my > life I've ever considered it. > > > Tacoma WA, Spokane WA, Minneapolis. apparently the strong correlation > was my use of the expression "kitty-corner" meaning diagonally across > and intersection. > > Least similar was: Jackson Mississippi, Lubbock Texas, and New Orleans. > > (oh...and when your waitress told you "all our beer is on sale", she was > just being a smart-ass. Probably another American idiosyncrasy. :) ) >
I think the difference between the beer being "for sale" and being "on sale" is easy. "On sale" should always refer to a discounted price. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
