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Old 04-20-2011, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Armsanta Sorad
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Not really. I just called it Los Angeles or LA.
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Old 04-20-2011, 03:27 PM
 
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That's just the literal translation, I mean like a real nickname
Wrong again! The literal translation is "The Angels."

Los=The
Angeles=Angels
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Old 04-20-2011, 09:27 PM
 
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La Ciudad de Los Angeles.
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Old 04-20-2011, 10:03 PM
 
Location: Nantahala National Forest, NC
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Don't shoot the messenger....You are probably closest Yamota.......I live on the east coast and have heard this term quite often.....my take was something like "Hollyweird" too.

A kind of "they live in their own little world"..... most likely in reference to "the biz" and how the city revolves around it...Perhaps from a distance LA appears one way (wacky people, movie hype, the "movie stars" and their ridiculously-published personal lives, "money town", etc) while actually it is quite different.









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I think it comes from what people from other states think of people from LA, kinda weird and high on something all the time so they all dance around and go "LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA!" all the time, also the basis of the term "Hollyweird".
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Old 04-21-2011, 02:15 AM
 
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Don't shoot the messenger....You are probably closest Yamota.......I live on the east coast and have heard this term quite often.....my take was something like "Hollyweird" too.

A kind of "they live in their own little world"..... most likely in reference to "the biz" and how the city revolves around it...Perhaps from a distance LA appears one way (wacky people, movie hype, the "movie stars" and their ridiculously-published personal lives, "money town", etc) while actually it is quite different.
For a nickname to be official it must be embraced by the city itself.

I could sit here and refer to the east coast as the "cheese coast" because everyone is so cheesy but it wouldn't be official until it is embraced by that coast.
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Old 04-21-2011, 06:24 AM
 
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Cheese would be more of a Wisconsin thing, just like potatoes are an Idaho thing, or blue crabs are a Maryland thing, etc.
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Old 04-21-2011, 07:51 AM
 
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Cheese would be more of a Wisconsin thing, just like potatoes are an Idaho thing, or blue crabs are a Maryland thing, etc.

That's just the literal translation, I mean like a real nickname
. Many people here on West Coast refer to the EC as the Cheese Coast because the people are cheesy. So that must be the official new name. la la la la la la la la la!
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Old 04-21-2011, 08:18 AM
 
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But I'm not even a Green Bay Packers fan
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Old 04-21-2011, 02:05 PM
 
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That's just the literal translation, I mean like a real nickname
Philadelphia?
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Old 04-21-2011, 02:12 PM
 
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Philadelphia cream cheese is the best, especially on Philly cheese steaks
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