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yall could hook some walleye (reply)

Vortech — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:02:32 +0000

I haven't used my Minnesota regionalisms for a thousand years.

I wonder if you just haven't noticed it. (reply)

Durandal — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:56:44 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/Detroit/comments/3p6771/what_do_you_call_those_sliding_glass_doors_you/

We should do a Detroit meetup.

I would be up for a Detroit DBO meet, but not for a "doorwall" one. That would just be awkward, and then I would be compelled to bring up all my Minnesota regionalisms, eh :)

Live 60 miles from Detroit, never heard doorwall. (reply)

Funkmon — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:46:12 +0000

I talked about it in my reply to Red Robber. It appears to be hyper local. Unlike most Detroit terms which can be spread throughout Michigan, Ontario, and Ohio, this one is extremely localized to Detroit and the northern suburbs. I assume you live in the Flint area, so I'm not surprised.

It's also possible you just haven't noticed it.

Live 60 miles from Detroit, never heard doorwall. (reply)

SIX min WHISTLE — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:42:07 +0000

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They're really like man sized windows rotated 90 degrees. (reply)

Funkmon — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:17:45 +0000

As for pocket doors, I have no word for this.

I wonder if you just haven't noticed it. (reply)

Funkmon — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:17:07 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/Detroit/comments/3p6771/what_do_you_call_those_sliding_glass_doors_you/

We should do a Detroit meetup.

Doorwall huh? (reply)

Durandal — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 06:37:30 +0000

I've lived in detroit for years and never heard this,and I have two.

What would you call a pocket door then? (reply)

Up North 65 — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 05:52:06 +0000

Cause a sliding glass door is more like a windall or waldow.

It sounds like an insult to me. (reply)

Ragashingo — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:17:40 +0000

AKA: He's such a doorwall.

O.o Wow...you're like a dog with a frisbee. (reply)

BlackstarBSP — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 02:38:05 +0000

And Doorwall sounds too much like a medium-sized toothed whale, but that doesn't seem to stop them.

The man with the plan (reply)

Funkmon — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 02:06:44 +0000

O.o Wow...you're like a dog with a frisbee. (reply)

Cody Miller — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 01:06:50 +0000

So, explain why it's not called a Wall-Door, since obviously there is more Wall than Door and it moves along the path of the wall and not on a hinge like a traditional door.

Because wall door sounds too much like the hotel.

Well actually they are calling it the Doorwall of Glass now. (reply)

BlackstarBSP — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 01:03:30 +0000

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Wall side windows (reply)

Cody Miller — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 01:02:11 +0000

That's right up there with mr Allan's 29 or two for fifty!

O.o Wow...you're like a dog with a frisbee. (reply)

BlackstarBSP — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 01:01:30 +0000

So, explain why it's not called a Wall-Door, since obviously there is more Wall than Door and it moves along the path of the wall and not on a hinge like a traditional door.

Doorwalls are in the revised VoG (reply)

marmot 1333 — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:17:23 +0000

There's a doorwall you have to open to get out of the Gorgon's Maze.

Atheons' time portals have doorwalls in front of them now.

And of course, to even get in the VoG you have to open the front doorwall.

Wait, so, which boss drops the doorwall? (reply)

Vortech — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:35:01 +0000

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Doorwall (reply)

ZackDark — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:20:09 +0000

. > "I'm not crazy"
. > Describes in detail how crazy he is

;)

Tl;Dr nobody in real life calls them doorwalls. (reply)

ProbablyLast — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:09:49 +0000

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Doorwall reminds me of Hosepipe (reply)

Funkmon — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:02:49 +0000

I don't get hosepipe. Most people I've heard use hosepipe for a water hose or garden hose. That's a hose. Hoses are flexible, pipes are rigid. I suppose there could be a material that is semiflexible and made of a more rigid material to fit the idea of the hosepipe.

Doorwall is similar but even more oxymoronic. A door is an opening to pass through verses a wall which is used for blocking off areas. Never heard this term though, and it was an interesting story. I lived in NW Ohio for a while and never heard that term.

Just out of curiosity, do you say creek or "crick" in your area?

Creek is one of those that doesn't seem to be based on region, though it is most common in the inland north. Blue is crick, red is creek.

For hosepipe, it may be a remnant from when hose meant lots of stuff. It used to be a common word for the sheath over corn, for leggings (which is where the word comes from), and quite a few other things. Pipe USUALLY means something rigid, but it doesn't have to. It's possible hose-pipe was used to distinguish between the varieties of hoses. Currently, we often have to distinguish them with "garden hose," even though most other varieties of hose are now obsolete. Hose-pipe makes some sense there. That said, language doesn't make sense. Sometimes words is just words and don't make no sense. Like door wall.

I'm not surprised you haven't heard the term. It appears to be hyper-local, occurring mostly in the northern Detroit suburbs and the city itself. Whereas other Detroit terms such as Coney Island for a diner extend out 50 to 100 miles easily in all directions, this one appears to barely make it 30, and only in one direction.