# Putin wants to know their location **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [April 11, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501 "2026-04-11T18:13:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/21 "2026-04-15T15:15:54Z")
And where _I am_ is over here! šŸ˜‰šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![PvtPublic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/pvtpublic/32/13089_2.png) [@PvtPublic](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PvtPublic)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 8:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/22 "2026-04-16T08:02:55Z")
Whether I am here or there, depends on the observer. ---
**Author:** ![CapriRacer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/capriracer/32/22_2.png) [@CapriRacer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/CapriRacer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 11:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/23 "2026-04-16T11:06:04Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > And where _I am_ is over here! šŸ˜‰šŸ˜‰ Where Iā€™m at right here is left behind. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 11:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/24 "2026-04-16T11:26:59Z")
Capri: Not picking on you or anyone else, but: Why do people say it ā€œWhere Iā€™m atā€? instead of simplyā€¦ Where I am? Or over the phone at the mall: ā€œWhere/are you atā€ vs ā€œWhere are you?ā€ I hear it from the 6pm news anchor, so Iā€™m not singling anyone out. ---
**Author:** ![CapriRacer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/capriracer/32/22_2.png) [@CapriRacer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/CapriRacer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/25 "2026-04-16T12:00:35Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > Capri: > > Not picking on you or anyone else, but: > > Why do people say it ā€œWhere Iā€™m atā€? instead of simplyā€¦ Where I am? > > Or over the phone at the mall: ā€œWhere/are you atā€ vs ā€œWhere are you?ā€ > > I hear it from the 6pm news anchor, so Iā€™m not singling anyone out. First, I am doing it deliberately. I know it is technically wrong, but in the many years since I took high school English, there has been an acceptance of the use of dangling prepositions. I suspect this has to do with other languages being translated into English. But I would buy that when we say ā€œI am at the grocery storeā€, that common English has picked up on the fact that ā€œatā€ is frequently paired with ā€œwhere I amā€, so for some people it just feels right to say it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/26 "2026-04-16T12:37:59Z")
That may be regional. A redundancy used in the Midwest ā€œthis hereā€ car, nut, wrench, whatever, rather than saying ā€œthisā€ car, nut, wrench, whatever. Or, regional terms for carbonated beverages. Midwest: pop, in the south: soda, there is one area where ALL non-alcohol carbonated beverages are referred to as coke. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/27 "2026-04-16T14:26:30Z")
> [@Purebred](#): > > there is one area where ALL non-alcohol carbonated beverages are referred to as coke. My areaā€¦ šŸ˜ I still laugh if/when my wife says britches (as in pants)ā€¦ She was born in DC and moved to Virginia age 3 and to TN age 13, so she still talks funny from time to timeā€¦ šŸ˜‚ ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/28 "2026-04-16T15:37:24Z")
Understood. For whatever reason I greew up never adopting such speech patterns as ā€œwhere Iā€™m atā€. Thatā€™s why I kidded with you ā€œright before the atā€. Among other things Iā€™ve heard ot there: I never had to ā€œx-capeā€ from a fire, or discussed ā€˜nucularā€™ (the majority parlance nowadays) energy ---
**Author:** ![CapriRacer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/capriracer/32/22_2.png) [@CapriRacer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/CapriRacer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/29 "2026-04-16T16:17:17Z")
I find language very interesting. On the one hand, itā€™s the only way we can communicate, but sometimes it hinders communication. I especially like the way the same word has a different meaning to someone else - particularly if the difference is just slightly different enough to confuse the matter at hand. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/30 "2026-04-16T19:25:48Z")
I was born and lived my first 22 years in the DC area before moving closer to Baltimore, where Iā€™ve spent the rest of my long life. I remember hearing britches, but mostly pants or slacks. Maybe that term was used wherever she spent her life in VA. Iā€™m guessing not Northern Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/31 "2026-04-16T20:54:56Z")
> [@Purebred](#): > > there is one area where ALL non-alcohol carbonated beverages are referred to as coke. When ordering a ā€œcokeā€, will the waitress ask which flavor? I would like a RootBeer. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/32 "2026-04-17T01:30:48Z")
IIRC Fredericksburg, possibly Richmond, Iā€™m terrible with namesā€¦ lol They used to catch blue crab a lot back thenā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 10:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/33 "2026-04-17T10:53:14Z")
You canā€™t get there from here, you have to start somewhere else firstā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/34 "2026-04-17T13:15:27Z")
Probably Fredericksburg, itā€™s not far from the Potomac River and far enough downstream to have ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– . I love ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  cooked any way, and especially steamed with Old Bay seasoning. C.r.a.b.s is forbidden language? Weird. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/35 "2026-04-17T13:57:29Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > Probably Fredericksburg Wow I am bad with names, asked this morning and I was close, but she lived in Stafford Virginia, missed it by 12 milesā€¦ lol ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/36 "2026-04-17T14:54:19Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > C.r.a.b.s is forbidden language? Weird. The Puritanical censoring algorithm on this site probably thinks that youā€™re referring to p.u.b.i.c lice, which are usually transmitted sexually. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/37 "2026-04-17T15:14:18Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > transmitted sexually Those guys can jump 20 feet, or so I have heard. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501/39 "2026-04-17T16:12:38Z")
But crab (singular) is OKā€¦ go figureā€¦ crab, craby (crabby), crabā€™s are all good thoughā€¦ [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/putin-wants-to-know-their-location/205501.md?page=1)