People from SoCal use article adjectives in front of numerical highway names. "I was on the 101, there was a wreck on the 405."

NorCal people leave out the "the." It is a dead giveaway; you can spot a SoCal transplant immediately, like when some newscaster from SoCal gets a job on a NorCal TV station.

:shifty

:shifty


Too early for profound sociological observations?

People from SoCal use article adjectives in front of numerical highway names. "I was on the 101, there was a wreck on the 405."

Better than a Cig Alert on the 405

just remember where the green is from.

because it is the 405, THE 5, etc...
Our freeways are more important than anywhere else

I say the... makes a lot more sense to me.

I don't say the. I say hella. For example: "So I took hella 50 up to Tahoe last weekend and ended up going hella 80 on the way back..."

hella>the

I have been saying this for YEARS.

Tom

I go up to the bay quite a bit, but only say the in front of freeways from socal... so i say the 5 or the 8, but i say 880 or 680 etc... crazy.

Don't you fucking hippies have your own subforum?
:shifty

your other option is i5, which is the same as saying "interstate 5" as if there was another 5 you could be speaking about. Last I checked there isn't a i5 and a n5 and a z5, there is just one of them. Why do you feel the need to be so overly discriptive? People aren't going to assume that you are speaking about another 5, so instead if interstate 5, why not just THE 5? All we are doing is dropping the useless interstate part. The the comes in because you need a title, which is no different from saying "I'm on THE interstate".

It makes perfect sense. And it sounds heck of a lot cooler than i5.

Whats really funny to me is the fact that I don't hear of anything regarding northern California out here in San Diego. I never heard of this "rivalry" since I went to UCSB. Then all these idiots have "Norcal" on their cars. Is it because you guys are insecure living in the shittier part of the state or what? We don't give a shit about northern California up here, but norcal people care about us apparently. Maybe we should take it as a compliment. One fool even tried to argue how the weather up there is better than southern California. Idiot.

PS: Why would you leave out "the" when referring to a freeway? Is is grammatically incorrect?

california WTF.

I get the 5 everyday.

Sometimes the 805.

On crazy occasions I get the 125 if the 805 and the 5 are too packed.

I only use the 15 when going up to Big Bear.

Ive never even glanced at the 56 or the 94.

My favorite freeway is the 163 coming out of downtown toward the 8 though.

Don't you fucking hippies have your own subforum?
:shifty

hahahahahaha

NorCal has better driving roads than SoCal. I've driven on Angeles Crest and the Rim of the World. Both of those roads are way below par compared to the roads I drove on in NorCal.

I'm not going to tell you exactly where they are. However, they're in Mendocino and Lake counties.

I get the 5 everyday.

Sometimes the 805.

On crazy occasions I get the 125 if the 805 and the 5 are too packed.

I only use the 15 when going up to Big Bear.

Ive never even glanced at the 56 or the 94.

My favorite freeway is the 163 coming out of downtown toward the 8 though.

This post rules.

Christ, just fall in the fucking ocean already.

Ne>ca

NorCal has better driving roads than SoCal. I've driven on Angeles Crest and the Rim of the World. Both of those roads are way below par compared to the roads I drove on in NorCal.

I'm not going to tell you exactly where they are. However, they're in Mendocino and Lake counties.

I'll concede with roads, G16 is my favorite road in the world. However, we do have some fabulous drives through Malibu, and also through the desert. You can spend days driving in the San Diego desert and still have a corner left unconquered. However, you guys have to concede that we have the superior weather. Better weather = higher number of driving days ;)

I'll concede with roads, G16 is my favorite road in the world. However, we do have some fabulous drives through Malibu, and also through the desert. You can spend days driving in the San Diego desert and still have a corner left unconquered. However, you guys have to concede that we have the superior weather. Better weather = higher number of driving days ;)

Take it to the track.

:rolleyes driving on a nice road does NOT mean driving irresponsibly, and being a responsible driver does not mean never having fun in the real world.

:rolleyes driving on a nice road does NOT mean driving irresponsibly, and being a responsible driver does not mean never having fun in the real world.

Take it to the forum.

I really wasn't criticizing anyone, I was just pointing out an interesting regional distinction, you defensive, overly-sensitive, thin-skinned, inferiority-complex riddled assholes.

I really wasn't criticizing anyone, I was just pointing out an interesting regional distinction, you defensive, overly-sensitive, thin-skinned, inferiority-complex riddled assholes.

you are the only one getting defensive :rolleyes

you are the only one getting defensive :rolleyes


Irony doesn't show up well on the Intranetz.

no, not when you don't stick a smiley at the end.

Take it to the forum.

take it to the dance floor!

ps. saying "the" before a freeway is lame
would u say it in front of a street name, ex. "I take the El Camino"
sounds redonculous

hella.

no, not when you don't stick a smiley at the end.

I am a smiley illiterate. :)

take it to the dance floor!

ps. saying "the" before a freeway is lame
would u say it in front of a street name, ex. "I take the El Camino"
sounds redonculous

hella.

We just cut out the freeway part since it's useless.

You can say "Take the 5 freeway" We all know the I5 is a freeway, so "Take the 5 son" works well.


BTW, hella fuck you.

Whats really funny to me is the fact that I don't hear of anything regarding northern California out here in San Diego. I never heard of this "rivalry" since I went to UCSB. Then all these idiots have "Norcal" on their cars. Is it because you guys are insecure living in the shittier part of the state or what? We don't give a shit about northern California up here, but norcal people care about us apparently. Maybe we should take it as a compliment. One fool even tried to argue how the weather up there is better than southern California. Idiot.

PS: Why would you leave out "the" when referring to a freeway? Is is grammatically incorrect?

Acually I'm in LA right now and gonna have to say the weather in the Marin is the best. Always 75-80 perfect.

california FTW.
fixed

Whats really funny to me is the fact that I don't hear of anything regarding northern California out here in San Diego. I never heard of this "rivalry" since I went to UCSB. Then all these idiots have "Norcal" on their cars. Is it because you guys are insecure living in the shittier part of the state or what? We don't give a shit about northern California up here, but norcal people care about us apparently. Maybe we should take it as a compliment. One fool even tried to argue how the weather up there is better than southern California. Idiot.

PS: Why would you leave out "the" when referring to a freeway? Is is grammatically incorrect?
Someone needs a hug.

We just cut out the freeway part since it's useless.

You can say "Take the 5 freeway" We all know the I5 is a freeway, so "Take the 5 son" works well.


BTW, hella fuck you.

zooom zoom zoom

take it to the dance floor!

ps. saying "the" before a freeway is lame
would u say it in front of a street name, ex. "I take the El Camino"
sounds redonculous

hella.

No, but at the same time, would you just say freeway? "I am on freeway" you also wouldn't say "I am on street" you would say the street or your street, but when you add the descriptor of El Camino you don't need these any more. In the case, the is a descriptor, it is letting you know exactly where you are by removing all other streets/freeways from the mindset and clarifying that you are on the route in question. If you remove this descriptor it must be replaced with another descriptor or it becomes grammatically incorrect. "I am on 5" makes no sense, but "I am on i5" or "I am on the 5" do because of these descriptors.

No, but at the same time, would you just say freeway? "I am on freeway" you also wouldn't say "I am on street" you would say the street or your street, but when you add the descriptor of El Camino you don't need these any more. In the case, the is a descriptor, it is letting you know exactly where you are by removing all other streets/freeways from the mindset and clarifying that you are on the route in question. If you remove this descriptor it must be replaced with another descriptor or it becomes grammatically incorrect. "I am on 5" makes no sense, but "I am on i5" or "I am on the 5" do because of these descriptors.

adding "i" is redundant though, since everyone knows wut ur talkn about anyway and it takes another valuable second out of your life. But if you were to say "i'm hella on the i5" then it would sound proper.

What do nor calers even say? I'm on 5?

What do nor calers even say? I'm on 5?Duh. :rolleyes We don't have the time of day to add your useless definite articles to our speech. It's already assumed that when I tell you, "I'm on 101, about to run over your face, hella," you will understand that I am driving my motor driven automobile on the Interstate Highway number 101, totally. BTW, I just saved your life because in the time that would have been spent by me needlessly identifying the proper pronoun in my sentence by reciting "the" in front of "101," you were given ample time to roll your face out of the path of my scraper on dubs that are so heavy that it takes 20x as long to brake to a standstill. Hyph.





:rolleyes:rolleyes:rolleyes

this thread is hella retared... if u have a problem with how i talk because im from norcal, come find me at bimmerfest.

What do nor calers even say? I'm on 5?

indeed we do, "take 880 home, or 680"

i will be takin 5 down to socal next weekend :D (literally) hehe

we only say numbers...no THE, no abreviations.... just numbers =D

this thread is hella retared... if u have a problem with how i talk because im from norcal, come find me at bimmerfest.

werd

Duh. :rolleyes We don't have the time of day to add your useless definite articles to our speech. It's already assumed that when I tell you, "I'm on 101, about to run over your face, hella," you will understand that I am driving my motor driven automobile on the Interstate Highway number 101, totally. BTW, I just saved your life because in the time that would have been spent by me needlessly identifying the proper pronoun in my sentence by reciting "the" in front of "101," you were given ample time to roll your face out of the path of my scraper on dubs that are so heavy that it takes 20x as long to brake to a standstill. Hyph.





:rolleyes:rolleyes:rolleyes

So we should disregard saying things correctly because it takes too much time?

oh that's right, you guys did figure out hella. ;)

Read 1984, a shrinking vocabulary is a bad thing.

BTW before you guys think that you are doing it right and we are doing it wrong, not everyone in the US says 5 while we are the only ones who say THE 5. In Jersey it is the beltway, in the south it is the interstate.

you are doing it wrong. and apparently, so is everyone else. El Camino Real is a *name* of a street, so you say "go down El Camino Real" or "go down Main Street". now, will you disagree that "505" or "80" or "237" are not names of streets? they are. they are names of very large stretches of highway, so we can call them "505" or "80" or "237", not "the 505" cuz you don't say "the El Camino". but you can say "the street" or "the interstate" or "the <insert an ambiguous descriptor here>". get it???

HELLA!!!

well, ok, trying to bring all the cali people back together, at least both the norcal and socal believe that the united states is somehow tilted 90 degrees or something. for some reason, all of us think "southerners" are everyone who are east of us, like everyone in idaho, kentucky, illinois, montana, etc are southerners, even though they may be considered the north.

I don't know, you NorCal people seem to have bad grammar.

Central Coast FTW

you are doing it wrong. and apparently, so is everyone else. El Camino Real is a *name* of a street, so you say "go down El Camino Real" or "go down Main Street". now, will you disagree that "505" or "80" or "237" are not names of streets? they are. they are names of very large stretches of highway, so we can call them "505" or "80" or "237", not "the 505" cuz you don't say "the El Camino". but you can say "the street" or "the interstate" or "the <insert an ambiguous descriptor here>". get it???

HELLA!!!

well, ok, trying to bring all the cali people back together, at least both the norcal and socal believe that the united states is somehow tilted 90 degrees or something. for some reason, all of us think "southerners" are everyone who are east of us, like everyone in idaho, kentucky, illinois, montana, etc are southerners, even though they may be considered the north.

You make good points. It still sounds odd to me to just say 5. It doesn't sound right, something is missing with it, I feel that it does need something else there to garnish it. Route, highway, i, the... just something.

But maybe in reality it is the difference between pop and soda, no rights just different.

"i took 5 home but it was packed so i tried 405 but it was slow so i took 1."

wait you took 5 of what? then how did you get 400 more? then what happened to the other 404? wtf where r u getting these numbers?

"i took 5 home but it was packed so i tried 405 but it was slow so i took 1."

wait you took 5 of what? then how did you get 400 more? then what happened to the other 404? wtf where r u getting these numbers?

THANK YOU!
exacltly what i was thinking

/thread

shenanigans.

wheres my broom

NorCal has better driving roads than SoCal. I've driven on Angeles Crest and the Rim of the World. Both of those roads are way below par compared to the roads I drove on in NorCal.

I'm not going to tell you exactly where they are. However, they're in Mendocino and Lake counties.


You haven't driven many roads in so cal then

Try some of these roads http://www.lateralg.org/

You haven't driven many roads in so cal then

Try some of these roads http://www.lateralg.org/

I love you

take it to the dance floor!



TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT!

this thread is hella retared... if u have a problem with how i talk because im from norcal, come find me at bimmerfest.

You can find me too.

I'll be parked by the 101.

this thread is hella retared... if u have a problem with how i talk because im from norcal, come find me at bimmerfest.
I feel the same way. Just look for 6'8 white guy wearing the hat that says "Hella Hyphy on 680"

I love you


see, can't we all just get along...

Central Coast FTW

this man speaks the truth

west cal all the way to the grave!!!!

You haven't driven many roads in so cal then

Try some of these roads http://www.lateralg.org/

awesom site :urtheman

Christ, just fall in the fucking ocean already.

ITT this post drips with corn husking education.

Wow, was my post seriously deleted?


classy...

I don't say the. I say hella. For example: "So I took hella 50 up to Tahoe last weekend and ended up going hella 80 on the way back..."

I say hella only when talking about my hella 550's :lol. it's the 5 and the 405 because it is meant to sound as scray as the boogie monster and the creek that goes creek in the night.

SoCal goodness, bitches

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=933052

indeed we do, "take 880 home, or 680"

i will be takin 5 down to socal next weekend :D (literally) hehe

we only say numbers...no THE, no abreviations.... just numbers =D



werd

Take 5? It just sounds like you're a director giving your actors a break. Or you're a jazz loving music geek referring to one of the best songs ever. :)

"the" is needed to sound intelligent and proper in my opinion. Take 567865 to 23598725...........that makes you sound liek a total fob.

Unless all you guys are a bunch of hella fob's anyway :shifty

Laguna Seca and Infineon.

The end.

Wow, was my post seriously deleted?


classy...

This is a domain of SRSNS!!!

damnit...now this has been pointed out...i have been saying "the 5." lol, i gotta move back up north...

global warming sucks

the socal way of saying it is definitely inferior. by saying "the 5" you are automatically assuming that the person knows you are talking about interstate 5. if you are giving someone directions who is not from the area, city, state, country, they will just look at you like what is "the 5". is that a street, a train, a subway? and you know what happens when you assume. so putting a discriptor in front of if such as i5, hwy 99, hwy1 is more accurate instead of the general "the", local slang

Wow, was my post seriously deleted?


classy...

Yeah, you breaking the rules is classy too.

Yeah, you breaking the rules is classy too.

u go girl

Yeah, you breaking the rules is classy too.


It was very appropriate when everybody is running their mouth about something so damn stupid.

Learn to play with other kids, it'll help a lot in life.

I just busted a nut in ITT's face.

this man speaks the truth

:D Where in Cen Cal are you from?

your other option is i5, which is the same as saying "interstate 5" as if there was another 5 you could be speaking about. Last I checked there isn't a i5 and a n5 and a z5, there is just one of them. Why do you feel the need to be so overly discriptive? People aren't going to assume that you are speaking about another 5, so instead if interstate 5, why not just THE 5? All we are doing is dropping the useless interstate part. The the comes in because you need a title, which is no different from saying "I'm on THE interstate".

It makes perfect sense. And it sounds heck of a lot cooler than i5.

Huh? Lol. See, you're working off the improper assumption that we would say I5. We don't. In fact, in the Bay Area, no one cares about "the" 5 anyway...lol. We drop anything, when we say a freeway number its already assumed the listener knows what we're talking about. If it is someone from out of the area or you're giving directions or such, we'll append the direction to the end of it.

IE, colloquially, "Yeah, just take 880 from Fremont to San Jose" "680 turns into 280 at 101" "Take Mission (we drop the suffixes, like Blvd, etc a lot too) to 84 East to 680 North"

No, but at the same time, would you just say freeway? "I am on freeway" you also wouldn't say "I am on street" you would say the street or your street, but when you add the descriptor of El Camino you don't need these any more. In the case, the is a descriptor, it is letting you know exactly where you are by removing all other streets/freeways from the mindset and clarifying that you are on the route in question. If you remove this descriptor it must be replaced with another descriptor or it becomes grammatically incorrect. "I am on 5" makes no sense, but "I am on i5" or "I am on the 5" do because of these descriptors.
"I am on 880" makes sense, since we all know what we're talking about. to be honest, 5 is hardly used up here, so it is kind of awkward sounding, but say I'm taking a trip down to SoCal from NorCal: "Yeah, I'm taking 84 to 680 to 580 and taking 5 down to LA." That seems completely normal.

What do nor calers even say? I'm on 5?
YEP! :D

"i took 5 home but it was packed so i tried 405 but it was slow so i took 1."

wait you took 5 of what? then how did you get 400 more? then what happened to the other 404? wtf where r u getting these numbers?
:lol :lol :lol :lol
Ok, now that was hella funny. But also hella stupid, since that's hella not how we understand it. :stickoutt

Laguna Seca and Infineon.

The end.
Word. Damn I miss them, being down here sucks....lol.

BTW, I keep my FasTrak in my windshield still, as evidence of my NorCal Pride. Just a subtle, effective reminder of my Bay Area roots. :buttrock

We lose, we have silver beam. :(

anyone in North County SD knows all about Rancho Santa Fe and Palomar Mtn. Rd.
hyphiest set-ups in the states

How is the use of "The" when referring to a freeway have ANY relevance to the NorCal/SoCal debate??? This is something only a woman or Fag could conjure up.

This simple idea is a great exemplification of the utter shame the NorCal people suffer from. Admit it. You wish you were here (SoCal)!

HA! I really don't care..... I love SoCal but NorCal (the Bigity Bay in particular) gave birth to the state of "Hyphy" which is by all means a beautiful thing.

go on nit-picking with your little words.

THE 405:evil2

This is something only a woman or Fag could conjure up.


yes exactly.

please beliedat

We lose, we have silver beam. :(

<3

<3
How you doin', sunshine? <33

This is something only a woman or Fag could conjure up.


Misogynistic homophobic hate speech AND excessive application of redundant article adjectives.

Misogynistic homophobic hate speech AND excessive application of redundant article adjectives.

gay

How you doin', sunshine? <33

^_^ , going to school, airing festivus grievances, and pouring money into my BIG MONEY WASTE. What is SN up to?

hella > the

/thread

^_^ , going to school, airing festivus grievances, and pouring money into my BIG MONEY WASTE. What is SN up to?
I have been professionaly partying for quite some time now. Not much else.

~*teehee*~

Misogynistic homophobic hate speech AND excessive application of redundant article adjectives.

Are you still mad cause HB is the REAL Surf City and Santa Cruz is 2nd to it? That was so long ago.

I'm not homophobic at all. Gays are great... that's why I like you!:D

Are you still mad cause HB is the REAL Surf City and Santa Cruz is 2nd to it? That was so long ago.

I'm not homophobic at all. Gays are great... that's why I like you!:D

:rofl

This is some golde

I have been professionaly partying for quite some time now. Not much else.

~*teehee*~

gigglez. MM approves of these activities.

indeed we do, "take 880 home, or 680"

i will be takin 5 down to socal next weekend :D (literally) hehe

we only say numbers...no THE, no abreviations.... just numbers =D
except 1 is usually called "highway 1"; even in context just saying "1" makes no sense :confused

People from SoCal use article adjectives in front of numerical highway names. "I was on the 101, there was a wreck on the 405."

NorCal people leave out the "the." It is a dead giveaway; you can spot a SoCal transplant immediately, like when some newscaster from SoCal gets a job on a NorCal TV station.They might also be a transplant from The Great White North. "It's 3pm already. There's no way I'm getting on the 401 now; it'll be a parking lot."

I think the difference lies in the amount of freeways socal has vs norcal. There are like 6 major freeways with pretty much the same format *80 (even for n/s and odd for e/w). So when someone says 680, you automatically know it's a freeway.

In socal, there are more than I can count. I lost my train of thought... someone help.


Anyway, I guess any retard would figure out that you're talking about a freeway when you take context into consideration. So "the" is unnecessary. norcal wins