Pellegrino isn’t soda. It’s carbonated mineral water. There are important non-semantic difference between carbonated mineral water, club soda, and seltzer water.
Your argument is fundamentally flawed by you not knowing what you’re talking about even a little bit.
Mineral water is natural spring or well water with a certain amount of total dissolved minerals that must have come from the source rather than be added later. It’s not even required to have bubbles. Some mineral waters are flat.
So we have another late Sunday thread.
More to the point…
Who. the hell. CARES what someone calls it. Soda, pop, fizzy drink, that thing over there (though I admit I’ve not seen someone use coke as a general term for soda so that’s new), it’s pretty much common sense what they’re referring to.
Or has lack of common sense hit such a point that people need guide rails for how to speak to the average person?
Next you will be telling me you call it a “shopping cart” and not a “buggy”.
Market share determines language, for familiarity is what instigates change. if 20% of the market insist on calling something X, when 80% call it Y. that X market is clearly wrong. now if the market (which is synonymous with population in this example) is 60%, then the term becomes X, for correctness of a word is determined by majority. See slang words that have become formal words for examples. :3
It absolutely does not.
For example, there is approximately zero market share of anything called “Pop”, but you keep insisting it’s called that when it objectively isn’t.
not really. giving the guy a pellegrino is just icing on the argument. hes using “soda” in an imprecise way, so he gets an imprecise “soda” as an example of what his insanity causes. going that extra mile for club soda is just nitpicky.
The only people that see using “soda” in an imprecise way, are those attempting to troll.
You know exactly what is meant. You pick to answer in an imprecise way in an effort to establish some sorta 'dominance" and let the person know they are wrong for not calling it what you prefer.
You’re clearly not cluing in on the implied argument or the concept of “synonymous with population” It might be because of specific traits, and thats ok I guess.
That’s because it is a shopping cart, but if you want to call a buggy, knock yourself out.
Well now you are just being disagreeable. Its a buggy!
Which population?
No, that’s what you’re doing.
Most foods in the USA, including mineral water, are required to adhere to specific FDA labeling guidelines.
Per the FDA, mineral water is from an underground source and contains at least 250 parts per million total dissolved solids. Minerals and trace elements must come from the source of the underground water. They cannot be added later.
Seltzer water is regular water with carbon dioxide bubbles.
Club soda has some or all of the following: potassium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate, potassium sulfate.
You provably do not even a little bit know what you’re talking about.
I would say context matters. When dealing with societal communication, Bandwagon argument “IS” the definitive decider of correctness. If people use irregardless vs regardless, Bandwagon wins out. :3
I can down a 60oz of coke in a minute
Why did this need a new post? OP felt their insight wouldn’t be read at the bottom of the other post?
Both means the same thing. It’s cart you push that you put things you’re buying in.
I switch between pop or soda. 
And that’s okay because I barely know what club soda even is, so there’s definitely no confusion there. 
Referring to it as Coke / Cola to my knowledge is more of a southern thing, in the US at least. I could be wrong on that though.
Nasa spent millions of dollars creating the ballpoint pen so they could write in space.
Russia took a pencil.
I disagree.
Agreeing with someone that is wrong, still makes you wrong.
Being part of a bandwagon does not change reality.
Since we’re talking about words and how they work…
“That” is for objects.
“Who” is for people.