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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Jan 18 23:35:51 2008, in response to Re: G Train to be cut back to Court Square permanently, posted by Michael549 on Fri Jan 18 21:29:24 2008. It's a pet peeve of mine when folks treat Manhattan as if it were the "city" which means that they kind of devalue the place where they live. If Manhattan is the "city" when what do they call the place where they actually live? Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island are not suburbs by any definition.Oh please. 90% of Queens and Brooklyn residents do that. I lived in Brooklyn or Queens (until about 10 years ago) for 20 something years, and we always said "I'm going to the city" while I lived in either Brooklyn or Queens when meaning going "to Manhattan". No one EVER said, I am "going to Manhattan", just about everyone said "I am going to the city" when they would go there. It's funny though, because now that I live in Suffolk county, my "talk" changed, as now, if I go to Brooklyn or Queens, I say, "I'm going to the city". I sometimes say, "I am going to Brooklyn", but I never ever say, "I'm going to Queens". If however I am going specifically to Manhattan, I will say, "I'm going to Manhattan", which was NEVER in my vocabulary for the first 20-something years of my life, I ALWAYS said I am going to "the city" when meaning Manhattan when I lived in Brooklyn and Queens. That's a silly pet peeve you have, as I think most Queens and Brooklyn people say "to the city" to mean Manhattan, and rarely will say, "I'm going to Manhattan", at least in my experience. It's the same thing they do (and I too when I lived there), saying "I'm going to Long Island" to mean Nassau and Suffolk. Well duh, Brooklyn and Queens IS ON Long Island. But that's the way it is..... |
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