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Article #2905Re: Northern/Southern Cal linguistic split
From: Mike Cohen
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 17:18
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 17:18
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jgk@netcom.com (Joe Keane) writes: >I'd say the usage in the Bay Area is to say just the route number, if it's >long. That is, I-880 is just `eight-eighty' and US-101 is `one-oh-one'. But >if the number is short, people put something before it. For example, SR-1 is >`root one' or `highway one', and I-5 is usually `eye five'. >Actually this seems to be what most of the country does; i've only heard >southern Californians use an article with the route number. Once i was asked >how to get to `the eight-eighty' and i figured the guy was from down south. LA natives are a bunch of assholes. Their whole life revolves around the freeways. In fact it would be a better place if the damaged freeways here NEVER got fixed (in fact, I'd pay someone to plant some bombs in strategic freeway interchanges just to get people off the freeways and out of their cars here). -- Mike Cohen - isis@netcom.com NewtonMail, eWorld: MikeC / ALink: D6734 / AOL: MikeC20
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,3991695550f96f40 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,3991695550f96f40 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,3991695550f96f40 X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-04-13 13:34:19 PST Newsgroups: sci.lang,la.general,ba.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!bah.com!proto.ida.org!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lambda.msfc.nasa.gov!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!isis From: isis@netcom.com (Mike Cohen) Subject: Re: Northern/Southern Cal linguistic split Message-ID: <isisCo7K26.274@netcom.com> Keywords: article Organization: ISIS International References: <2oeuct$sjt@mizar.usc.edu> <2of3p1$g7c@fido.asd.sgi.com> <2ofc8e$dh9@agate.berkeley.edu> <jgkCo6rEt.LKo@netcom.com> Distribution: na Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 17:18:06 GMT Lines: 19