Re: The City and all that

["gess" <gess@icon.co.za>]

Hi

I think that the objections to Frisco are very pretentious! I live in
Johannesburg, commonly known as Joburg. Other provincial capitals around
here are Bloemfontein (known as Bloem), Durban (known as Durbs), etc.

Now, I have yet to hear an American or British newseader who knows how to
pronounce Johannesburg correctly but nobody around hear minds or cares!

The unfortunate soul who originally referred to `Frisco' comes from
Singapore. I doubt whether most of the citizens of `Frisco' know what the
names of major cities in Singapore are, let alone how to spell or pronounce
them.

After all, we all use Leica cameras which come from Deutschland, but we
don't even call their country of origin by that name, we call it Germany!

So, theres my 10 cents worth.

Best wishes to all the Luggers, and let us all remember that none of us is
as well-versed in the names/nicknames of countries, cities, etc as we might
like to be.

Harold

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> From: Stark <astark@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: The City and all that
> Date: 14 June, 1997 2:57 AM
> 
> No:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Roger Beamon wrote:
> 
> > On 13 Jun 97,  Marc James Small wrote:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > No, don't call San Francisco, "'Frisco".  Or, please, not to
> > > anyone who's lived there.
> > > 
> > > Marc
> > 
> > I, sir, shall call the city whatever I choose, for whatever reasons 
> > I choose. I'll risk being taken for the tourist that I, indeed, am.
> > 
> > If, as a tourist, I am singled out as a potential "fleecee", the 
> > potential "fleecor" had better be cautious. I may have a strategy 
> > for dealing with same.
> > 
> > Leica, anyone?
> > --
> > Roger, from Philly 
> > (Did W.C. Fields ever take off on Frisco the way he did Philly?)
> >