But why? Slide is so simple. Sliding board sounds like you're some Elizabethan time travelers trying to explain this futuristic technology.
IDK? It's just what we called it. I mean, I know the term slide too, but sliding board is what I grew up knowing it as. I guess I thought slide was short for sliding board? LOL.
I wonder if there are any novels where the characters call it a sliding board or if the editors would make the author change it out.
If I read a book set in Milwaukee, WI, and a character called a bubbler a "fountain," it would ring false. But other readers not from the area would wonder what the hell a bubbler is.
I just asked H and he said sliding board too. But he said what underwaterrhymes said. He uses "slide" as a shortened version. "Het (kid's name), go down the slide!"
But why? Slide is so simple. Sliding board sounds like you're some Elizabethan time travelers trying to explain this futuristic technology.
IDK? It's just what we called it. I mean, I know the term slide too, but sliding board is what I grew up knowing it as. I guess I thought slide was short for sliding board? LOL.
Me too. I thought it was like playground equipment slang. LOL