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Pike
09-01-2012, 02:09 AM
Well?

Madame Adequate
09-01-2012, 02:11 AM
I usually say autumn but sometimes I say fall so I picked the option that says I sometimes say both, but I would not want to imply that I say both equally as that would be a false impression to give, I would say it's probably a 85-15 split in favor of autumn.

Quindiana Jones
09-01-2012, 02:12 AM
I give this thread ten posts before it turns into linguistic dick-waving. xD

I call it Autumn, although when I have to remember the paragon of stupidity and uselessness that is Daylight Savings Time, I use the "Spring forward, Fall back" thing.

Shiny
09-01-2012, 02:34 AM
Fall, because the leaves fall and in general, everything tends to fall through during the Fall.

Sincerely,
Pessimist

Tigmafuzz
09-01-2012, 02:43 AM
I don't have the time to speak an entire extra syllable like that. But I usually type it as autumn because I've found it's far more likely for someone online to say "You mean fall?" leading to a short argument and an even greater waste of time.

Mercen-X
09-01-2012, 02:46 AM
The hot season is Summer, the cold season is Autumn, the dead season is Winter, the new season is... SPRING? There's some other word for it we've loooong since stopped using, but I feel that if we're just gonna go with Spring, we might as well just go with Fall. Hell, we should call summer Flush and winter Bare or something equally lame.

Jinx
09-01-2012, 02:56 AM
IS there another word for Spring?

I say autumn. I just like the way it sounds, and my synesthesia actually makes it an burnt orange, where as fall is a purple-y colour, so I dunno. It just works better. Plus, I think the word "autumn" is pretty.

Raistlin
09-01-2012, 02:57 AM
Either, though I say "Fall" more frequently.

Christmas
09-01-2012, 05:11 AM
FEASTING TIME!!! :bigsmile:

Then again, that is what I call every season. Oink oink! :bigsmile:

Sephex
09-01-2012, 06:03 AM
Fall. I call it that because I suffer from severe depression that let's me still get stressed out from "back to school" commercials even though I have not attended any sort of school in years.

NorthernChaosGod
09-01-2012, 07:17 AM
I usually say Fall if I have to name it, but I've also called it second Summer because San Diego is still hot.

Quindiana Jones
09-01-2012, 08:38 AM
I suppose if we're gonna be technical, we English call it winter. We have winter, and July. Sometimes we don't have July.

Rantz
09-01-2012, 09:16 AM
I call it Quorp.

Psychotic
09-01-2012, 09:20 AM
I suppose if we're gonna be technical, we English call it winter. We have winter, and July. Sometimes we don't have July.Raintember is my favourite month, though Raingust and Rainuary are not without their charms.

Quindiana Jones
09-01-2012, 09:25 AM
Raingust sounds awesome.

Pike
09-01-2012, 10:30 AM
I call it Quorp.

Yeah but Swedish doesn't count!

Agent Proto
09-01-2012, 11:31 AM
The proper term is Autumn, but I usually say Fall.

Old Manus
09-01-2012, 12:06 PM
At school I was supposed to call it 'hydref' (which coincidentally is also the word for October). I don't think I've ever called it fall in my life.

Jiro
09-01-2012, 01:11 PM
I am saying Fall far more frequently thanks to my brief stint in the US. Fall at least makes me sound different and interesting over here so I don't mind it so much.

Faris
09-01-2012, 01:29 PM
That time between holy tit hot and holy smurf cold.

Pike
09-02-2012, 12:12 AM
'hydref'

There is a suspicious lack of L's and W's in that word.

Madame Adequate
09-02-2012, 12:13 AM
Think he meant "llwdrew"

fire_of_avalon
09-02-2012, 02:04 AM
I say Fall, and I'm actually really surprised that most people here seem to say Fall as well. I figured it was more acceptable to say Autumn.

Mercen-X
09-02-2012, 02:14 AM
If I had four daughters, I'd name them...

Quindiana Jones
09-02-2012, 02:31 AM
Ian, Dave, Balthazar and Margaret?

Shorty
09-02-2012, 03:32 AM
I use both interchangeably, but I probably use "fall" most often.

Jiro
09-02-2012, 03:58 AM
I say Fall, and I'm actually really surprised that most people here seem to say Fall as well. I figured it was more acceptable to say Autumn.

I thought it was an American thing and seeing as most members are of that persuasion...

Old Manus
09-02-2012, 08:05 PM
'hydref'

There is a suspicious lack of L's and W's in that word.You mean Ll, and that is actually classed as one letter.

The <SUP>more <SUP>you know ☆</SUP></SUP>

Jiro
09-03-2012, 01:30 AM
The More You Know indeed. wow, that's kind of cool

Mercen-X
09-03-2012, 06:09 AM
'hydref'

There is a suspicious lack of L's and W's in that word.You mean Ll, and that is actually classed as one letter.

The <SUP>more <SUP>you know ☆</SUP></SUP>

Note the use of W's as well as L's, likely implying this individual did not mean to indicate the lack of multiple L's or multiple W's.

The <SUP>more <SUP>you know =☆</SUP></SUP>


Margaret?
Never! I hate that name!

Hollycat
09-03-2012, 06:11 AM
The season after summer is called "Thank you earth for finally starting to get colder so I can go outside without dying"

The season after winter is called "smurf you climate change, I want more snow!"

Mercen-X
09-04-2012, 05:14 AM
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a156/Mercen-X/35084e0e.gif

Old Manus
09-04-2012, 11:49 AM
...I think we're done here

ReloadPsi
09-04-2012, 01:21 PM
Winter, with the way the temperatures have been this year.

Slothy
09-04-2012, 02:03 PM
I say Fall, and I'm actually really surprised that most people here seem to say Fall as well. I figured it was more acceptable to say Autumn.

I thought it was an American thing and seeing as most members are of that persuasion...

Probably a Canadian thing too. We (at least around here) call it fall too. Though it would probably be more apt to refer to winter as fall what with all the ice. Being able to go the entire winter without falling is a valuable skill. Especially since winter is really about six months long minimum.

escobert
09-04-2012, 02:32 PM
Either.

Cloudane
09-05-2012, 12:16 PM
I call Autumn Autumn and Football Football.

But if I'm posting around a lot of Americans, I do often use Fall and Soccer just to avoid the inevitable confusion / extra line of clarification...

sharkythesharkdogg
09-05-2012, 11:40 PM
I almost always call it fall, but Autumn is perfectly fine.


Either way, since I live in the south, the concept is conjecture. I'm convinced all seasons are simply different degrees of summer.

Tigmafuzz
09-06-2012, 12:04 AM
I call Autumn Autumn and Football Football.

But if I'm posting around a lot of Americans, I do often use Fall and Soccer just to avoid the inevitable confusion / extra line of clarification...

I call Football Soccer, but I call American Football Handegg.


Either way, since I live in the south, the concept is conjecture. I'm convinced all seasons are simply different degrees of summer.

Don't I know it :(

Jiro
09-06-2012, 12:42 AM
I call Football Soccer, but I call American Football Handegg.

:Oo:

Tigmafuzz
09-06-2012, 02:54 AM
I call Football Soccer, but I call American Football Handegg.

:Oo:

That way nobody ever has to be confused, because they know exactly what I'm talking about.

Mercen-X
09-06-2012, 03:06 AM
After-Summer, Post-Summer

blackmage_nuke
09-06-2012, 08:39 AM
I say autumn, but on a side note I hate when i see a trailer online that says "coming this summer" and then I have to do global seasoning math

Jiro
09-06-2012, 08:45 AM
Beside the fact that it is imprecise. Coming this x month is way more specific.

Shauna
09-06-2012, 01:32 PM
I don't believe I have ever used the term "fall".

Cloudane
09-06-2012, 02:05 PM
Either way, since I live in the south, the concept is conjecture. I'm convinced all seasons are simply different degrees of summer.

That's funny. I live in England, and all seasons are just different degrees of winter.

sharkythesharkdogg
09-06-2012, 02:21 PM
Either way, since I live in the south, the concept is conjecture. I'm convinced all seasons are simply different degrees of summer.

That's funny. I live in England, and all seasons are just different degrees of winter.

I was convinced England is a giant, isolated, temperate rainforest. With a funny accent.

Jinx
09-06-2012, 03:08 PM
Okay, I'm gonna state the obvious here and just say, technically seasons in general are varying degrees of weather.


:P

Cloudane
09-06-2012, 03:38 PM
There's always one smartarse isn't there :D

Cuchulainn
09-06-2012, 05:00 PM
Fall isn't a season. If it is I demand the rest of the seasons dumbed down.

Summer = Sweat
Spring = Bunnies
Winter = Fat Bearded Twat

Shorty
09-06-2012, 05:00 PM
I second this motion.

Iceglow
09-06-2012, 06:23 PM
I suppose if we're gonna be technical, we English call it winter. We have winter, and July. Sometimes we don't have July.Raintember is my favourite month, though Raingust and Rainuary are not without their charms.

Well that was rather correct up until a few years ago Quin... if we really want to get technical Britain is essentially the Giza Plains in FFXII. You wake up one morning and it's a flooded soggy place and the next it's bone bloody dry with drought warnings and hosepipe bans and sunny. There is no in between save when it decides that fuck you all we're going to have some snow. In April. Like it shouldn't be getting relatively nicer by then.

Cloudane
09-06-2012, 07:03 PM
I live in the North - it's probably better described as Burmecia from FFIX. As soon as you get near it gets a little grimmer and starts raining.

NorthernChaosGod
09-08-2012, 03:09 AM
For anyone that says Autumn or that Fall isn't a season, I provide the ultimate counterargument.

"Have a nice trip, see you next Autumn." :colbert:

Jiro
09-08-2012, 04:53 AM
I fail to see your point.

Hey. You know those kids who used to bully you? They'd trip you and say "did you have a nice Fall?"

Yeah that doesn't fucking happen in Australia.

Pike
09-09-2012, 01:22 AM
I fail to see your point.

Hey. You know those kids who used to bully you? They'd trip you and say "did you have a nice Fall?"

Yeah that doesn't fucking happen in Australia.

That's because in Australia everything is upside down so you actually wouldn't fall. You'd do the opposite. And float.

...or something.

IT WAS FUNNY IN MY MIND OKAY

Jinx
09-09-2012, 01:23 AM
I fail to see your point.

Hey. You know those kids who used to bully you? They'd trip you and say "did you have a nice Fall?"

Yeah that doesn't smurfing happen in Australia.

That's because in Australia everything is upside down so you actually wouldn't fall. You'd do the opposite. And float.

...or something.

IT WAS FUNNY IN MY MIND OKAY

The only way to get down is to burp.

Jiro
09-09-2012, 03:38 AM
It's okay Pike I got what you were going for and my pity laugh had elements of real laugh in there.

blackmage_nuke
09-09-2012, 10:33 PM
I fail to see your point.

Hey. You know those kids who used to bully you? They'd trip you and say "did you have a nice Fall?"

Yeah that doesn't fucking happen in Australia.

Exactly! There arent any racial connotations at all in that, Australian bullies like to make it explicitly clear why theyre beating you up

Jiro
09-10-2012, 10:15 AM
They beat us up because we're very uncool.

Tigmafuzz
09-11-2012, 03:22 AM
Heh. One of the guys who tried to bully me during the short time I was in middle school had an Australian accent. Judging from what I did to his face, he probably doesn't have any accent anymore :greenie: