yeah, i only lived in sf a short while but it became clear that anyone that called it 'frisco' was a tourist or just arrived.
--- On Tue, 3/10/09, jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: The Horsemen
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 9:12 PM
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com,
> BaxDeal@... wrote:
> >
> >
> > similarly, nobody who's actually from L.A. refers to
> Los Angeles as Lala
> > land. of course, nobody who's
> actually IN L.A. is from L.A.
> >
> > John Lau
>
> Frisco is pretty funny, too... How much fake vocabulary do
> people pick up from books and movies? Like the shamus, the
> dame, etc. I've had very, very old people tell me that this
> business of "dames" was not common parlance. They had other
> words.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
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