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    Hi All

    So as an Aussie who writes for the US market, I write in the American vernacular... just another thing I have to think about on top of writing a great script. Anyway, this is so a reader doesn't automatically think I'm setting my story in Oz because I'm using our vocabulary.

    So, can someone in the US kindly tell me - would you use the word Couch or Sofa?

    Thanks

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    Re: Couch or Sofa

    Originally posted by yesac View Post
    Hi All

    So as an Aussie who writes for the US market, I write in the American vernacular... just another thing I have to think about on top of writing a great script. Anyway, this is so a reader doesn't automatically think I'm setting my story in Oz because I'm using our vocabulary.

    So, can someone in the US kindly tell me - would you use the word Couch or Sofa?

    Thanks
    Either.

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      My grandma used to call hers a chesterfield.

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        Sofa so good.
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          Re: Couch or Sofa

          Originally posted by yesac View Post
          Hi All

          So as an Aussie who writes for the US market, I write in the American vernacular... just another thing I have to think about on top of writing a great script. Anyway, this is so a reader doesn't automatically think I'm setting my story in Oz because I'm using our vocabulary.

          So, can someone in the US kindly tell me - would you use the word Couch or Sofa?

          Thanks
          Did you ever see Six Degrees of Separation? There's a whole scene explaining the difference. I say sofa because it's the same in Spanish.
          Last night, Jesus appeared to me in a dream and told me that loving me is the part of His job He hates the most.

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            Chesterfield FTW!

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            • #7
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              Couch if it has no legs or you can't see the legs. Sofa if it has legs you can see.

              I don't know if those definitions are standard, but that's how I use the words.
              "Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.-
              ― Ray Bradbury

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              • #8
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                Wow, and here I thought it would be an easy question.

                Thanks for all your responses, I know which one to use now.

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                • #9
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                  I prefer settee.
                  "Only nothing is impossible."
                  - Grant Morrison

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                  • #10
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                    I'll settee you!

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                    • #11
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                      What, everyone doesn't call it a Davenport? My stars!

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                      • #12
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                        Most people use both couch and/or sofa interchangeably, I think. I use sofa in my writing, but I use couch when I'm talking - or sleeping on it.

                        I haven't heard divan, davenport, chesterfield, or settee used in a very long time. I'm going to start using davenport and see if I can't bring it back in vogue.
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                        • #13
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                          if i were doing this, i'd look at linguistics. couch is more guttural and thus more likely to be used by the working class (most of america) and especially blue-collar males. sofa is more of a white-collar term, possibly even feminine verbiage; perhaps dated as: "things my granny would say..."

                          just my thoughts and i've had a couple of appletinis, so...
                          life happens
                          despite a few cracked pots-
                          and random sunlight

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                            Originally posted by asjah8 View Post
                            just my thoughts and i've had a couple of appletinis, so...
                            J.D.?

                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvNvG2krOYw

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                              Originally posted by SuperScribe View Post
                              i'm more stud-ette, than dud-ette.


                              (sigh) there i go with that clarifying thing again. it's a joke off the two male characters chatting in the y-tube link.
                              life happens
                              despite a few cracked pots-
                              and random sunlight

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