all four examples you used are very much used only by teenagers and/or people who still think of themselves as teenagers.
my dude? my man? my guy?i will add that the hometown thing really gets my goat, too. happened to me a lot in unviersity:"where u from dude?""im from boston""oh where in boston?""reading""...dude that's like a 40 minute train ride away"
Since this is the ranting and venting thread, is Toronto really your hometown? Hometown being where you were born and raised, not spent a few years as an adult? Come on now. It's a pet peeve of mine. I can't tell you the amount of people I've met here that say they're from Toronto and when I say "me too" and start to talk about where they grew up and what schools they attended, it turns out they're not actually from Toronto. And this is not a Toronto snobbery thing. Just an issue of accuracy.
but then what if you lived 3 different places for 6 years? do you even have a hometown?
I suppose, personally, I never ask people what their hometown is. I'm in my 30s and so are they. "Where you from?" Canada Oh, nice. Where? Toronto. Oh, nice. Whenever someone says that's where they're FROM I roll with it and discuss that city with them. Again, my hometown is Hamilton and I have NOTHING to say about it, so............. I lived in Toronto a long time, I went there all the time, I lived on its fringes for a super long time. Hometown has such a homespun, Midwest sound to it and that's why I never use it. Where you're from is a question I ask because the answers aere usually more interesting. Hometown is a boring question, honestly. What's your hometown? Anchorage. Oh, snap! I love Anchorage. Oh, X Y and Z, do you remember the diner in the red cabin? Awww yerah! So good! I moved from there when I was three. Oh................. ..
But...you were the one who used the term hometown in the first place; "it's literally my hometown " is what you said about some place that is literally NOT your hometown. You brought "hometown" into the discussion. Now you're trying to disparage the use of the term.
i guess its a bit different now, you're right. i would never ask someone where there hometown is lol. but when you're in university it seems like the majority of the people you meet are from 1 place. but also i dont think your hometown is just where you were born? i guess for me its like between your birth and age 18 where did you live the most? but then what if you lived 3 different places for 6 years? do you even have a hometown?
To me a hometown is the place that you relate most strongly to. I spent the first 11 years of my life in 1 state, that time split between two cities, and the next 10 in a different state, in one city. I would NEVER describe the city I spent the latter ten years in as my hometown. I have zero emotional connection to it, it never felt like home, and I don't care to remember a lot about that time. I moved away from there as soon as I could. I'll always think of the town I lived from 4-11 as my hometown. Those were really happy years for me overall, and my memory of that time is really bright. I guess it felt the most positively formative for me.Anyhow (not that you were arguing this), nobody is ever going to question where someone says their hometown is. Like I'm never gonna tell someone who relates most strongly to NYC as their hometown that they shouldn't call themselves a New Yorker because they didn't live there until they were 6. Whatever city someone vibes with, that's cool with me
Sure, you can question where someone's hometown is. I have a friend that moved to Manhattan. He's a New Yorker. Lives and works in Manhattan. No matter what he thinks of NYC he can't claim it as his hometown. In no way whatsoever. You may hate your hometown, but hometown does mean something. You can't just pick any place you like. That's absurd.
If hometown objectively means anything it probably carries some association with childhood and growing up there for at least a portion of time.If someone spent any period of their childhood/growing up/formative years in a specific city, then I think they have a right to identify that place as their hometown. I'm not going to question that.
Exactly. Hometown is associated with where your formative years from childhood to adolescence as well as your family's roots. So, you can't just pick any place due to it being higher profile and claim it as your hometown. I don't know anyone that doesn't eventually ask about someone's hometown when they're getting to know a person overseas. A normal and expected question would be "Where are you from?" "Canada" "Oh, where in Canada?""Well, originally I'm from Minden, but was living in Lindsay before I came here""Oh, cool, I grew up in Coboconck." Now, that's a conversation between Canadians. You would break it down to hometown. It would be odd if you didn't ask more details. If it was an American asking a Canadian you would just leave it at Canada because they're only going to say they've been to Niagara Falls once and beyond that's just snow galore to them.
Now, that's a conversation between Canadians. You would break it down to hometown. It would be odd if you didn't ask more details. If it was an American asking a Canadian you would just leave it at Canada because they're only going to say they've been to Niagara Falls once and beyond that's just snow galore to them.
Why isn't there even a single deli in every Korean city?Because the cheapest hot dog wiener is packaged and sold as locally seen as equivalent.I guess all kinds of processed meat is carcinogenic. But a salami, pepperoni or kielbasa might be worth the cancer risk. No sausage in this country is.
