Subj : Re: Life is a highway...
To   : Gamgee
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Apr 08 2023 07:51:00

-=> Gamgee wrote to Nigel Reed <=-

 Ga> Something else that I find funny is how "interstate" has become a noun
 Ga> in the English language.  For example, you might say on the phone:
 Ga> "Yep, I just got on the Interstate and I'll be there in an hour".  ;-)

Vernacular tells us in California which part you're from. If you call a
freeway "The <number>", then you're from southern California. If you
refer to them by the number alone, northern California.

If you refer to the freeways by name, then you're unbelievably old.

In the San Francisco bay area, all of the freeways had names first. 13
was the Warren Freeway, 101 the Bayshore, 80 the Eastshore, 280 the
James Lick, 17/880 was the Nimitz, and so on...



.... It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it plays out for 'em...
--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
 * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)

.