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Old 11-18-2009, 02:58 AM
 
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Even worse: The term "East County" is a misnomer. Look at a map of San Diego County. The entire urbanized area (including El Cajon) is clearly in the western half of the county.

Okay, I know it's just a matter of semantics, but still - whenever I hear people talk about El Cajon as being part of "East County", I think they sound a little uneducated.
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Old 11-18-2009, 08:32 AM
 
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Okay, I know it's just a matter of semantics, but still - whenever I hear people talk about El Cajon as being part of "East County", I think they sound a little uneducated.
Basically everyone in San Diego calls El Cajon "East County", including newspapers, TV newspeople, even El Cajon's own residents. While you are technically correct in that the county is very large, most of it is unpopulated. So El Cajon is the easternmost portion of the population center of the county.
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Old 11-18-2009, 12:34 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Even worse: The term "East County" is a misnomer. Look at a map of San Diego County. The entire urbanized area (including El Cajon) is clearly in the western half of the county.

Okay, I know it's just a matter of semantics, but still - whenever I hear people talk about El Cajon as being part of "East County", I think they sound a little uneducated.
You know, when I first moved here, that confused the hell out of me. Geographical east county is all desert and there's not much out there.
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Old 11-18-2009, 12:36 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Basically everyone in San Diego calls El Cajon "East County", including newspapers, TV newspeople, even El Cajon's own residents. While you are technically correct in that the county is very large, most of it is unpopulated. So El Cajon is the easternmost portion of the population center of the county.
This is true. As well as Santee, Lakeside and sometimes even La Mesa is thrown into the "east county" term.
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Old 11-18-2009, 12:41 PM
 
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Basically everyone in San Diego calls El Cajon "East County", including newspapers, TV newspeople, even El Cajon's own residents. While you are technically correct in that the county is very large, most of it is unpopulated. So El Cajon is the easternmost portion of the population center of the county.
Basically everyone in LA/OC, including newspapers, TV newspeople, and its own residents calls that area "The Southland". Does that make it correct?
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Old 11-18-2009, 01:34 PM
 
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Basically everyone in LA/OC, including newspapers, TV newspeople, and its own residents calls that area "The Southland". Does that make it correct?
You can't tell the residents of an area what to call the place they live. It's like telling someone they're pronouncing their own name incorrectly. Who is the standards body that defines what is "correct"? LA/OC is south, and it's land, so they call it the Southland, what exactly about that is "wrong"? You might want to look into something called descriptive linguistics as opposed to prescriptive linguistics, i.e. language is created by the people who speak it, it is not necessarily pre-defined by a standards body.
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Old 11-18-2009, 02:56 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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You can't tell the residents of an area what to call the place they live. It's like telling someone they're pronouncing their own name incorrectly. Who is the standards body that defines what is "correct"? LA/OC is south, and it's land, so they call it the Southland, what exactly about that is "wrong"? You might want to look into something called descriptive linguistics as opposed to prescriptive linguistics, i.e. language is created by the people who speak it, it is not necessarily pre-defined by a standards body.

"Inland Empire" still cracks me up
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Old 11-18-2009, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Paradise/Las Vegas
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"Inland Empire" still cracks me up
I love that name!!!
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Old 11-18-2009, 05:42 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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We've gotten off topic but...

You two before me are from San Diego. What do you think of the name "Normal Heights"? Why Normal?
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Old 11-18-2009, 06:48 PM
 
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We've gotten off topic but...

You two before me are from San Diego. What do you think of the name "Normal Heights"? Why Normal?
The building at the corner of Park and El Cajon Boulevard was the original SDSU, i.e. the San Diego Normal School. Hence University and Normal Heights.
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