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[Mark O'Brien]

This all sounds like a perfectly adequate way for San Franciscans to 
identify and look down their noses at visitors.

On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 12:56  PM, Sam Hotchkiss wrote:

> On 4/25/03 10:42 AM, "Tarik Bilgin" <tarik at opalblue.com> wrote:
> I usually say "san francisco" yep, straight up, all 4 syllables-- but I
> decided to consult the experts on this, :
>
> http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?lastnode_id=510789&node_id=538126
> "I try to explain to people that hearing "Frisco" or "San Fran", or 
> seeing
> it on a t-shirt , sounds like fingernails scraping on a blackboard to a
> resident.  Ack.  Stop it please.  I usually get one of two reactions 
> to my
> request.  One is "Oh I will now intentionally call it those names at 
> every
> possible opportunity, just to annoy you ."  The other reaction is " 
> Well,
> what do you call it, then? " which I will attempt to answer now.
>     1)  The City .  This is most common if you're in Silicon Valley .  
> It
> may seem ambiguous, but what other city could it be referring to? 
> Oakland
> ?San Jose ?  Hah.  We laugh at those places, much like New Yorkers 
> laugh at,
> uh, every other city in the world.  (Admittedly, this is probably 
> because of
> ignorance of those places.  I haven't been to San Jose in almost 2 
> years.)
>     2)  The name of the neighborhood you're going to .  This is more 
> common
> among SF residents.  It is a smaller city than many , but 
> personalities of
> San Francisco neighborhoods vary widely.  Try "Gonna grab a burrito in 
> the
> Mission " or "Meet you at Tart to Tart in the Sunset ".
>     3)  SF is OK in text.  Sometimes I use the airport code, SFO .
>     4)  If the full name " San Francisco " is used, at least get rid 
> of the
> assonance in the 2nd word.  Shorten the "a" in "Francisco"; say "San
> Frinn-ciss-co" or "San Francis-co" but not "San Fraaaann-cisco".  
> Except if
> you're Frank Sinatra ; the chairman can sing it his way .
> Okay, now that I've explained it, you can resume calling it San Fran to
> intentionally annoy me, while wearing the glitter y "Frisco" t-shirt 
> you
> bought at Fisherman's Wharf , and hanging off of the cable car with 
> the huge
> line of tourists also waiting to take the cable car, preventing its 
> use as
> public transportation by actual residents.  But it's okay, cause I'll 
> laugh
> my ass off when you try to make a left turn off of Market, and hunt for
> street parking near Union Square ."
>
> http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?lastnode_id=510789&node_id=510789
>
> "NOBODY in who lives in the Bay Area calls San Francisco "Frisco ". 
> Only
> some lame *censored* tourists who want to sound local say Frisco and
> everybody who lives here knows that. We call it The City , *censored*! 
> If
> you say "Frisco" to a local, they will know you're a poser ."
>
> "Emperor Norton once proclaimed "Whoever after due and proper warning 
> shall
> be heard to utter the abominable word 'Frisco,' which has no 
> linguistic or
> other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor."
> The penalty for this crime was $25, which in that day was a whole lot, 
> since
> even today, it's no laughing matter ."
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Samuel W. Hotchkiss
> President, Contractor Services, LLC.
> hotch at zlit.net
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