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Environmental Baddies 11w
it’s so interesting to me how ppl on the salt coasts refuse to recognize a beach as a beach if it’s not salt water even for the great lakes and then inland folks will call any amount of sand next to water a beach
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Anonymous 11w

As someone from Kentucky, there’s a difference between The Beach and A Beach. Colloquially, the beach is with the ocean but a beach is anywhere with sand where you swim. Lots of our lakes have beaches. A beach doesn’t even have to have sand, basically just be formally cleared for the purpose of swimming/etc.

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Anonymous 11w

I’ll die on the hill of the Great Lakes bc really their freshwater seas

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Anonymous 11w

A beach is a narrow, gently sloping strip of land that lies along the edge of an ocean, lake, or river.

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Anonymous 11w

as someone from a salt coast, they’re totally beaches? it’s sand next to a body of water. hell it could be clay or rocks, i’m still calling it a beach.

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Anonymous 11w

I feel weird about the fact that we have “beaches” in Nebraska despite being quadruple landlocked (most people here have never seen the ocean in person)

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Anonymous 11w

Tbf I haven’t been to the Great Lakes nor has anyone I know. None of our lakes are big enough to have waves not caused by boats going past. I’d also call that picture The Beach

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Anonymous 11w

Seas (including Great Lakes) and oceans count as “The Beach” while you can have “a beach” at a lake

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Anonymous 10w

as a coaster a beach is a beach w ocean, and a lake is a lake, not a beach just a lake you can swim in, but also respect the fact that some ppl live so far from the coasts and the lake is their beach

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

The Great Lakes hold a special place in my heart

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

Chicago concrete ah beach mfer

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 11w

And this might be myopic to my community but “the beach” also almost always means either Hilton head or somewhere in Florida

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 11w

very true! but also does anyone outside of jersey say theyre going to the shore?

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 11w

God this is so interesting I love regionalisms

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 11w

i would consider this to be “the beach” though

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

I responded in an independent comment on accident 😑 but I also wanted to say that that’s a GORGEOUS picture omfg

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 11w

I’ve only ever heard “going to the shore” as someone coming in from the water, not going out to it. If you’re swimming in the middle of the lake, you’d announce that you’re going to the shore, but you’d never say that abt driving from the city to the lake. Same concept with The Beach afaik

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Regionalisms are so fucking cool 😭 I got to have months of in-person training w people from all across the country (and mex, can, Brazil) and it was SO cool to see how everyone’s language was just a liiiittttllleeee bit different

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 11w

yeah the south shore of lake michigan has crazy waves sometimes. a lot of ppl drown bc they underestimate the power.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

They get rip tides

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

they’re extremely powerful. it’s worse than the ocean actually bc it’s not from the tide so the waves are more frequent

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 10w

see i just don’t understand how u don’t consider this a beach

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

that is extremely beautiful, and i really do enjoy a day at the lake, but its really just a technicality thing for me. also a big differentiating thing here is lack of waves, at least in my experience

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 10w

that is gorgeous!!

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 10w

girl two adult men drowned in lake michigan this weekend bc of 10 foot waves

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

my bad i don’t live literally anywhere near lake michigan and don’t know anything about it 😭 i was talking about MY experiences with lakes. i dont have any problem with someone calling the lake the beach. its just my definition

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