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i wonder how you measure importance? but something tells me fort worth would still have a lot of cities in front of it on a list of "important us cities".
15... maybe 15... MAX.
If we're 80 miles further away where there would be no "DFW" or no "Metroplex", then we're not having this conversation.
I don't get how people are confused after they learn that the "Metroplex" is a nickname for DFW. What is there to be confused about?
People are confused to learn of it. It's a not a very well known nickname and it doesn't seem particularly unique to the Dallas-Fort Worth area either. No one is confused after they learn of it.
But only stupid people think Fort Worth is a suburb of Dallas. Why pay them any mind?
Must be a lot of stupid people...
It's hard to ignore when people constantly say these things, then when I (someone who actually LIVES here) explain to them what FW is, they for some reason continue to call it the opposite of what I told them.
People are confused to learn of it. It's a not a very well known nickname and it doesn't seem particularly unique to the Dallas-Fort Worth area either. No one is confused after they learn of it.
The nickname is unique to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, whether it seems like it or not. There are other "metroplexes" but people do not refer to them that way. Most people in this thread aren't very familiar with it, but there are several people who aren't from the DFW area that have admitted knowing the nickname. Anyways, the whole point of creating a nickname like "Metroplex" and "Twin Cities" is to create name recognition. This thread helps both Minneapolis and DFW by spreading the two nicknames to people who were unaware of it previously.
People are confused to learn of it. It's a not a very well known nickname and it doesn't seem particularly unique to the Dallas-Fort Worth area either. No one is confused after they learn of it.
Exactly. I don't understand his comment at all - I haven't seen a single person say they're confused about the nickname after learning about it.
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Originally Posted by orlando-calrissian
The nickname is unique to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, whether it seems like it or not. There are other "metroplexes" but people do not refer to them that way. Most people in this thread aren't very familiar with it, but there are several people who aren't from the DFW area that have admitted knowing the nickname. Anyways, the whole point of creating a nickname like "Metroplex" and "Twin Cities" is to create name recognition. This thread helps both Minneapolis and DFW by spreading the two nicknames to people who were unaware of it previously.
The name was generic upon first usage in the 50s; In the 70s, DFW tried marketing it as a local descriptor. Please refer back to my links some pages back showing the usage and history of the term. I personally (and others on the thread have also confirmed this) have thought of it and used it as a global descriptor, not specifically one describing the DFW area.
Agreed that it was meant to be a marketing term, obviously, and DFW has put money into marketing it for decades. Further, I would call it a failure if the majority of people interested in exactly that sort of thing had not heard it applied specifically to the area before. I call the area "Dallas-Ft Worth" and write it "DFW." I think that works far better than "THE Metroplex." It's like picking your own nickname in high school - that sort of thing is lame and never sticks anyway.
Exactly. I don't understand his comment at all - I haven't seen a single person say they're confused about the nickname after learning about it.
The name was generic upon first usage in the 50s; In the 70s, DFW tried marketing it as a local descriptor. Please refer back to my links some pages back showing the usage and history of the term. I personally (and others on the thread have also confirmed this) have thought of it and used it as a global descriptor, not specifically one describing the DFW area.
Agreed that it was meant to be a marketing term, obviously, and DFW has put money into marketing it for decades. Further, I would call it a failure if the majority of people interested in exactly that sort of thing had not heard it applied specifically to the area before. I call the area "Dallas-Ft Worth" and write it "DFW." I think that works far better than "THE Metroplex." It's like picking your own nickname in high school - that sort of thing is lame and never sticks anyway.
Exactly, and with the Twin Cities, the name was not "picked" or even marketed to start. People just started calling them that, and the name stuck, and has stuck for almost 150 years.
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