little_tippler

That should definitely be a song title!

It's funny how big "soda" or "pop" or whatever you call it is in the States.

I mean, we drink Coke, and Sprite and all that here too, but it's just not important enough to warrant a whole new drinks category.

I would never say "I'm going out to the store to get some soda/pop."

Neither would I say "I'm going out to the store to buy some fizzy drinks."

Which is maybe what it's called more often out here.

Bebida com gás in portuguese.

I will call a spade a spade. I'm going to get some Coke/Sprite/Fanta/7Up.

I like my Coke but currently am wearing braces and it eats away at the glue that holds the damned things in my mouth so it's been almost a year that I've had any.

Also, I've noticed in several northern european countries I have visited that fizzy water is very popular. When you ask for water they brink it to you sparkling. Which is weird to me. Here in Portugal if you ask for water, you just get water, no bubbles. What is most popular in the states?

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918