[Ads-l] Heard on re-run of The Office

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

Dunno if I agree with that.

For me, athletic shoes exist on a spectrum, with sneakers on one end, and track shoe-style shoes on the other.

This:

https://slimages.macysassets.com/is/image/MCY/products/3/optimized/1996993_fpx.tif?01AD

is definitely a sneaker.  (as the commercial used to say, "Converse All-Stars -- limousines for the feet!")


This:

https://www.rei.com/media/dc809a81-5641-4c38-b473-63c73c5fe90a?size=1020x510

not so much.

So, to my way of thinking, some tennis shoes (pronounced "tennyshoes" in my youth) are not sneakers.  But I don't know if that is a general view or just a personal idiosyncrasy.


> ----
> 
> For some of us, all tennis shoes are sneakers, but not all sneakers are tennis shoes.
> 
> On Feb 26, 2018 11:06 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > "She gets the 'whitest _sneakers_' award because she always has the
> > whitest _tennis shoes_."
> >
> > This is the second time that I've come across the mixing of regional
> > lexical-variants in a single sentence. I'm starting to lose sleep!😳
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >


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