Comment by adastra22
6 days ago
The bay area is more than SF. If you mean San Francisco and don't want to say the whole name, you use either 'SF' or 'the city.'
I'm not sure why it's a strange shibboleth? Not every name has to be shortened, and if you are going to shorten names, not every short form is acceptable. I don't know where "San Fran" came from, any more than "Cali", neither of which are used by locals, but it just doesn't feel respectable. It's not the name of the city.
When I lived in SF I walked past this street art a couple of times a week and got a smile.
https://www.sfstairways.com/stairways/eugenia-avenue-prospec...
Ha, that’s great!
"SF ... It's not the name of the city."
Your words ... 8)
I think it honesty just boils down to: It sounds bad.
The fact it rhymes is probably why it exists.
You've never met an Alexander that despises being called "Alex"?
No but they all seem upset when I call them Alexa
No. Why would you "despise" being referred to?
My first name is Jonathan, I generally get referred to as (int al) Jon, Jonny, Jo, or John (bloody silent letters).
As it turns out, until I was 20 I thought my name was spelt Jonathon. I got a copy of my birth cert to get a student loan and discovered the "truth" - even my passport was wrong and my parents had to sort out the first few of those and they should have known better! I was born in 1970 and no one noticed that I misspelt my own first name for 20 years.