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to me, it's annoying-- but it could also be keyboard laziness for some people maybe. i've never written 'nabe' but sometimes i'm tempted to (lazy fingers)
I dunno what it is. I guess it just sounds pretentious to me.
It's probably not though. I'm sure it's just me being a arsehole.
'Pretentious' is exactly the right word! It's that same attitude leading people who use it to insist on cutesy names for the neighborhood in which they live.
Never throught twice about "nabe" as short for neighborhood, especially in writing. Its just shorter and easier. Keyboard laziness I guess. But I don't use it when I'm talking.
Like others here I do hate those stupid acronyms. Nolita? FiDi? SoHa?
Never throught twice about "nabe" as short for neighborhood, especially in writing. Its just shorter and easier. Keyboard laziness I guess. But I don't use it when I'm talking.
Like others here I do hate those stupid acronyms. Nolita? FiDi? SoHa?
Real estate people, spare me!
i wouldn't be caught dead verbally using 'nabe'. i view that as a hipsterish thing to say. jmo
I use "nabe" on this forum only - it was a cross between laziness and thinking it was an accepted forum shortcut - never said it aloud - nor plan to.
I also dislike the newer abbreviation of nabes.....oops there I go again....FiDI in particular makes me think of the jerkwad investment bankers I used to work around...eucch
I want to SCREAM when I hear that!!!! I can live with the originals:
SoHo (Soth of Hudson)
TriBeCa (the TRIangle BElow CAnal)
The "new" ones "FiDi" "NoHo" all just annoy me.
Dumbo, lic, sobro, annnoys me, but it brings a nice ring to it. Down under the manhattan bridge overpass, south bronx for sobro. Just last nightI heard some out of towners people aka transplants or tourist on the n train saying that lic is the next stop and we going to lic. Soho means south of houston and not hudson. Whats next midtown aka mido.
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you know what else irritates me?
