Comments on: You can’t spell “Whatever!” without T-H-E. http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: suki http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/comment-page-1/#comment-350 suki Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:15:39 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/#comment-350 Yup, an observation a friend and I made after living in LA for a bit. In LA, use "the" before highways. In SF, don't. Odd, isn't it? Yup, an observation a friend and I made after living in LA for a bit. In LA, use “the” before highways. In SF, don’t. Odd, isn’t it?

]]> By: joe http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/comment-page-1/#comment-349 joe Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:03:03 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/#comment-349 They dont have any tall buildings in SJ - much less a collection. They dont have any tall buildings in SJ – much less a collection.

]]> By: Bronwyn http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Bronwyn Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:21:20 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/#comment-348 But I'm free and clear for amusing overuse of the word "dude," right? But I’m free and clear for amusing overuse of the word “dude,” right?

]]> By: cd http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/comment-page-1/#comment-347 cd Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:17:17 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/#comment-347 Bronwyn - as a fellow SoCal transplant, I can empathize. It took me about a year to translate in my head before speaking the "the." Frankly, I think it's a special kind of NorCal weirdness that in a public-trans-friendly-yet-don't-take-away-my-car city, they don't show their freeways the same kind of respect that we do down south, by affording them the definite articles they so richly deserve . . . . My personal verbage: I refer to all freeways existing exclusively North of San Jose by they numbers only (380, 280, 85, 80), but freeways which will take me to THE Southland are "the" - the 101, the 5. Technically, I suppose 5 becomes the 5 around Kettlemen City - that In'N'Out is the official halfway marker so far as I can tell . . . Don't let 'em getcha down. And don't ever, EVER say "hella." They won't let you back into LA. Bronwyn – as a fellow SoCal transplant, I can empathize. It took me about a year to translate in my head before speaking the “the.”

Frankly, I think it’s a special kind of NorCal weirdness that in a public-trans-friendly-yet-don’t-take-away-my-car city, they don’t show their freeways the same kind of respect that we do down south, by affording them the definite articles they so richly deserve . . . .

My personal verbage: I refer to all freeways existing exclusively North of San Jose by they numbers only (380, 280, 85, 80), but freeways which will take me to THE Southland are “the” – the 101, the 5. Technically, I suppose 5 becomes the 5 around Kettlemen City – that In’N'Out is the official halfway marker so far as I can tell . . .

Don’t let ‘em getcha down.

And don’t ever, EVER say “hella.”

They won’t let you back into LA.

]]> By: mike http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/comment-page-1/#comment-346 mike Sat, 05 Feb 2005 04:20:21 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2005/02/03/you-cant-spell-whatever-without-t-h-e/#comment-346 just use the word "hella" sxtensively for the next few days and you'll be fine. just use the word “hella” sxtensively for the next few days and you’ll be fine.

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