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Old 04-18-2011, 11:34 PM
 
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Only hear it in typed form on internet forums...used by non-natives, recent transplants, and others who moved here for the climate advantages. Excellent way to identify a recent transplant.
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Old 04-18-2011, 11:35 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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I've never heard Los Angeles referred to as "LALA land".

[or maybe someone did but I didn't connect the term with LA and otherwise ignored it]
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Old 04-19-2011, 01:19 AM
 
Location: Paradise/Las Vegas
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I have heard LALA Land a few times.Sounds like outsiders.Just like people that call CA "Cali"
Or they refer to the whole state as opposed to Glendale,LA,Inglewood ect ect.
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Old 04-19-2011, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Yeah. That's what someone said in a reply to a youtube video.

"It sure is weird, but then again, this is LALA land!"

I lol'd when I read that.

And I thought "So, LA has their own version of 'Keep Austin Weird' or something like that?"

Interesting. Does anyone hear such a term?

What terms do Angelenos use when referring to any weirdness in LA?
Never but my husband tells me I live in LALA land 1/2 the time and we are thousands of miles from Los Angeles.
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Old 04-19-2011, 09:04 AM
 
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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 04-19-2011, 10:49 AM
 
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Well, on that, I've never heard of the term before. At all.
They probably don't say it that much on TV because a large part of a show's audience is probably form LA! LOL
Is it commonly used in the East Coast vs West Coast brawl?
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Old 04-20-2011, 11:40 AM
 
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Yeah. That's what someone said in a reply to a youtube video.

"It sure is weird, but then again, this is LALA land!"
I lol'd when I read that.
And I thought "So, LA has their own version of 'Keep Austin Weird' or something like that?"Interesting. Does anyone hear such a term?
What terms do Angelenos use when referring to any weirdness in LA?
La La land? Must be some out of the area description or one a transplant might use. Sounds disparaging and whoever uses it should be prepared to be disparaged.
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Old 04-20-2011, 11:48 AM
 
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Every city has a nickname really, like Philly is "city of brotherly love" or Baltimore is "charm city" or New York is "the big apple"/"Gotham city"/"greatest city on Earth", or Seattle is "emerald city", or Chicago is "the second city", or Boston is "beantown"...who's to say LA isn't "LA LA land"?
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Old 04-20-2011, 11:52 AM
 
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Every city has a nickname really, like Philly is "city of brotherly love" or Baltimore is "charm city" or New York is "the big apple"/"Gotham city"/"greatest city on Earth", or Seattle is "emerald city", or Chicago is "the second city", or Boston is "beantown"...who's to say LA isn't "LA LA land"?
No idiot! LA is the "City of Angels."
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Old 04-20-2011, 01:20 PM
 
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That's just the literal translation, I mean like a real nickname
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