Sex & Shenanigans

[Whiskeyjack]

Yeah it’s just across the 101 from the Castle. It’s not very exciting.

"The 101."
I know there's a reason Californians add "the" to the names of route numbers.
I'll just never be convinced it's a good reason and you all are just weird.

 

[lavendersilk]

Yeah it’s just across the 101 from the Castle. It’s not very exciting.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

"The 101."
I know there's a reason Californians add "the" to the names of route numbers.
I'll just never be convinced it's a good reason and you all are just weird.

Because saying across 101 sounds dumb as shit?

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

"The 101."
I know there's a reason Californians add "the" to the names of route numbers.
I'll just never be convinced it's a good reason and you all are just weird.

Cause we don't know if something is an interstate or just a state freeway? You can't just say random numbers like "101"

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Cause we don't know if something is an interstate or just a state freeway? You can't just say random numbers like "101"

Why not? We do it all the time. Works just fine.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Because saying across 101 sounds dumb as shit?

I just went out to Wawa. And went across 35 to get there. Sounds normal to me.
So you're definitely the oddballs in this word problem.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I just went out to Wawa. And went across 35 to get there. Sounds normal to me.
So you're definitely the oddballs in this word problem.

“I went to store”. “I am at beach”. “I crossed freeway”.

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

I just went out to Wawa. And went across 35 to get there. Sounds normal to me.
So you're definitely the oddballs in this word problem.

Across 35 lakes? Birds? MILFs you didn't get to fuck cause they were too busy trying to figure out what you were saying?

By adding "the", we know you're referring to THE freeway without having to say freeway.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

“I went to store”. “I am at beach”. “I crossed freeway”.

"I went to school." "I am at church." "I crossed R. Kelly and got pissed on."

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

“I went to store”. “I am at beach”. “I crossed freeway”.

Hey I took 2 to get to Glendale today

 

[UnquietDreams]

“I went to store”. “I am at beach”. “I crossed freeway”.

So honest question. Do you say "I-5" or "The I-5?" Because the second one sounds clumsy to me.

I would think it would depend on the length of the name. Up here it would be "I took Five in because The 205 was a parking lot."

 

[Whiskeyjack]

You know... sometimes I tell my wife about the conversations I have on Lit. And she assumes I'm just hounding people for upskirts and downshirts all the time. But in reality, it's just stuff like this. Why do some people say "the 101" instead of just "101"?

I think I'm using this website wrong.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

"I went to school." "I am at church." "I crossed R. Kelly and got pissed on."

You use the when you’re discussing a specific member of a group, as in the 101 freeway. The fact that y’all don’t know grammar isn’t an issue with California.

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

So honest question. Do you say "I-5" or "The I-5?" Because the second one sounds clumsy to me.

I would think it would depend on the length of the name. Up here it would be "I took Five in because The 205 was a parking lot."

Always "the 5". You can say "the 5 freeway" if you really want to be proper.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

You use the when you’re discussing a specific member of a group, as in the 101 freeway. The fact that y’all don’t know grammar isn’t an issue with California.

I know you use "the" when you're discussing a specific member of a group. Which is why you don't need it in front of a highway number. It's not like there's another Route 35 within a hundred miles of here. There's no group. It's the only one.

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

I know you use "the" when you're discussing a specific member of a group. Which is why you don't need it in front of a highway number. It's not like there's another Route 35 within a hundred miles of here. There's no group. It's the only one.

We are taking about which specific freeway

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

We are taking about which specific freeway

Exactly

 

[Whiskeyjack]

We are taking about which specific freeway

Specificity is denoted in the specific number you're using. Adding "the" is grammatically redundant.

 

[OrdinaryPerson]

I know you use "the" when you're discussing a specific member of a group. Which is why you don't need it in front of a highway number. It's not like there's another Route 35 within a hundred miles of here. There's no group. It's the only one.

Like we are saying a specific freeway. Not just we are on a freeway. But we are on the 5.

You are at school does not mean the same as you are at the high school. If you want to say "I'm at the high school," you don't say "I'm at high school". We just shorted the school so we say "the high"

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Now, the book answer to all of this from Linguistics class (20 years ago), is that Californians tend to add "the" because a lot of their highway numbers are shortened versions of different types of highways. So you had "the 305 interchange" or "the 112 bypass" or something to that effect. And those simply got shortened to "the 305" or "the 112" or what have you. On the East coast we don't tend to name our highways like that. A bypass might exist for a temporary time, but not as a permanent roadway. Or if it was permanent, it would just take on the name of the old road. Like, we have "York Road," and "Old York Road," "Brandywine Road" and "Old Brandywine Road," where the "Old" roads were the originals and bypasses or newer routes were built, but then just adopted the previous road name. But there's not much that sticks around long enough for us to shorten any road names but keep the "the."

 

[UnquietDreams]

You know... sometimes I tell my wife about the conversations I have on Lit. And she assumes I'm just hounding people for upskirts and downshirts all the time. But in reality, it's just stuff like this. Why do some people say "the 101" instead of just "101"?

I think I'm using this website wrong.

Huh. Oddly situational.

I am further north here, but while we would refer to highway 405 as "The 405," we would call Highway 101 down the coast just "101," and I-5 as I-5 or just "five." We also name them, so I-84 is just "84" or The Banfield, and 99W is just "99" or Pacific Highway.

 

[lavendersilk]

Do they say, "Spur" or "Parkway" in California?

 

[dawn_of_night]

So honest question. Do you say "I-5" or "The I-5?" Because the second one sounds clumsy to me.

This is the correct way to reference lanes of transportation....

I would think it would depend on the length of the name. Up here it would be "I took Five in because The 205 was a parking lot."

I feel like only using the number leave a room for error .. what if 205 was a bus route?

 

[crazychemgirl]

You know... sometimes I tell my wife about the conversations I have on Lit. And she assumes I'm just hounding people for upskirts and downshirts all the time. But in reality, it's just stuff like this. Why do some people say "the 101" instead of just "101"?

I think I'm using this website wrong.

in between the naughty and depravity … is a genuine community of people who are asking the hard questions … and really truly finding connections with other like minded people who think that pineapple belong on pizza and that cheese is either delicious or horrid.

 

[UnquietDreams]

in between the naughty and depravity … is a genuine community of people who are asking the hard questions … and really truly finding connections with other like minded people who think that pineapple belong on pizza and that cheese is either delicious or horrid.

I once said this place is amazingly silly and truly important at the same time.