While I was in LA a few weeks ago for work, a co-worker pointed out the way LA-liens refer to their highways and how dumb it sounds when you apply it anywhere but LA.
They refer to all the highways as "the". The 10. The 105. It seems fine when you're listening to the traffice reports in the morning there. But what if you applied that to NWA?
"How do I get from your house to the Nestlé office?"
"Well, first you go down Carley and turn West on the 412. Then you hit the 540 going North. You'll stay on the 540 until you get to exit 88 and then take the 72 East for about 1/4 mile, turn left onto NE McLain, then right onto NE Courtyard Loop."
In fact, I believe I'm going to start giving directions using "the" to identify all highways. I'm surprised Little Rock-ians don't already do this, as they feel they are the Arkansas equivalent to LA. :)
1 Comments
Published by John Nelson
on March 09, 2006 at 7:35 AM.
They refer to all the highways as "the". The 10. The 105. It seems fine when you're listening to the traffice reports in the morning there. But what if you applied that to NWA?
"How do I get from your house to the Nestlé office?"
"Well, first you go down Carley and turn West on the 412. Then you hit the 540 going North. You'll stay on the 540 until you get to exit 88 and then take the 72 East for about 1/4 mile, turn left onto NE McLain, then right onto NE Courtyard Loop."
In fact, I believe I'm going to start giving directions using "the" to identify all highways. I'm surprised Little Rock-ians don't already do this, as they feel they are the Arkansas equivalent to LA. :)
So Funny! I thought about that EXACT same thing when I came back from my business trip to LA last year.
...traffics heavy east bound on the 405 and the i-10 interdisbursal loop.