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55steve
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
| Quote: | Originally posted by 55steve
Similar thing with the Sierras... it's the Sierra - NEVER plural
Boarder? Someone that rents from you - not something you cross
Center council boat? It's console dummy...
V haul boat - hull, you dork!
I actually am working on a list of common misused words - maybe I AM the miserable old man! |
I could care less! |
Couldn't care less to be correct...but you knew that...
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bufeo
Assume you meant "aware of that"...
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Of course. Always appreciate a heartfelt correction.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
The newer use of that term 'The Baja' was really something you heard from Canadians... and even I heard "On the Baja"... It is just a style of
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Sooooo...they started this blasphemy. Them....They.....I should have known.
 ...put yo asssss right here.......
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajadock
Why do Californians need to identify interstates with "THE"...5, 8, 805, 15, 405...? |
Because most Californians today are from elsewhere and have no California heart and soul.
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liknbaja127
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Call it want you want, I gust hope I can call It home some day
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The Baja, Baja, Baja California, etc. , etc. Really doesn't matter to me. I just hope some day to either take a lengthy vacation or live there for a
period of time after my retirement.
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Marc
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Who cares? I don't believe I just read this thread to the end.
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grace59
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| Quote: | Originally posted by liknbaja127
Call it want you want, I gust hope I can call It home some day
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I'm with you liknbaja 
Baja is the home of my heart!!
Whenever I hear that rainy, chill wind blow. I think it may be time to head for Mexico. Tengo que obedecer mi corazon!
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grace59
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
It's just plain wrong. Baja isn't a thing.....nor is it strictly a place. It's a world unto itself, complete with a world-view of it's own.
It's a feeling akin to that for a first love.
It's a feeling akin to that for our first unrequited love.
It's a challenge...and a rite of passage.
It's an escape...a place to get away.
And, it's a place to find oneself.
It's a place to live with history and nature, as well as a place to watch the future unfold......
..........perhaps too quickly.
It's a place to assimilate a culture.
It's a place to call home.
But........it's not a thing. It's not "The" anything.
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Ah, Dennis...You just got me all misty-eyed and longing for Baja as I sit up here in The Washington State freezing The behind off....
Whenever I hear that rainy, chill wind blow. I think it may be time to head for Mexico. Tengo que obedecer mi corazon!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
The motored has spoken wise words....... |
EXACTLY.
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajadock
Why do Californians need to identify interstates with "THE"...5, 8, 805, 15, 405...? |
Because most Californians today are from elsewhere and have no California heart and soul. |
I am a third-generation Californian, took 4-unit College courses on California History and Geography at San Diego State, and I say "The Baja" all the
time. I also come down to SoCal on "the 5" several times a year. So there!!!!! 
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DENNIS
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OK....Let's morph the question a bit:
What do people who live here...I mean live here....call it? Baja?....Or.....uh....that other thing?
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Russ
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I take the 805 to the border but I live in Baja Sur.
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
I am familiar with as far back as the late '50's in San Diego, and we often referred to the penninsula as "THE BAJA", mostly out of respect for the
place------it seemed to enphathise in our minds and to others that BAJA was a very particular & special place, worthy of everybodies amazement and
wonder, and somehow calling it "THE BAJA" seemed to be appropriate. I retain that belief to this day, and that title actually excites me to this day.
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I agree 110%
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La Baja is fine according to Baja native 'BajaCactus'.
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The Baja is South of the 38th Parallel where The True Baja begins.
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Actually it is peculiar that we call it Baja. Baja means Lower, as in Lower California. Why would you call it just Lower. Probably because you have no
idea what it means and are just mouthing a foreign sound.
That's like calling North Dakota, North. Or the Black Hills, Black. Kinda dumb, actually. Even BC makes more sense.
If Socal is the LA/SanDiego area then what is Baja California - Sosocal, VerySoCal. You see, none of it makes sense.
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I was chatting with the bartender one time at the Los Arcos in La Paz and I mentioned the Mexican congress had a bill in consideration to change the
name of Baja Sur to Guerrero Negro (to put an end to some confusion). He said he didn't like the idea -- I asked him why and he said he was born in La
Paz and didn't see a good reason for the change. I said "What's the difference?"
He said "What's your name?" I told him George. He said "Why don't I just start calling you Harold?"
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schwlind
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
It's just plain wrong. Baja isn't a thing.....nor is it strictly a place. It's a world unto itself, complete with a world-view of it's own.
It's a feeling akin to that for a first love.
It's a feeling akin to that for our first unrequited love.
It's a challenge...and a rite of passage.
It's an escape...a place to get away.
And, it's a place to find oneself.
It's a place to live with history and nature, as well as a place to watch the future unfold......
..........perhaps too quickly.
It's a place to assimilate a culture.
It's a place to call home.
But........it's not a thing. It's not "The" anything.
It's BAJA. |
Dennis... I agree 100%
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| Quote: | | Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by brewer
I think it is a California thing... like interstate 5 is called "the" 5 |
I think it proves the person saying "the Baja" either hasn't been there, or is a relative newcomer to Baja. I hate to say it, but it really irritates
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While I never say the phrase "The Baja" as in I am going to ...,
I do drop 'California' from it, as 'Baja' is just short for for Baja California.
To me, in the 70's and 80's, 'The Baja' was the short way to talk about a race... "The Baja" was short for the Baja 1000 or the Baja 500... "The Baja"
was my C.B. Radio handle back in those decades, too. It was also short for the Baja peninsula, as was said earlier.
The newer use of that term 'The Baja' was really something you heard from Canadians... and even I heard "On the Baja"... It is just a style of
speaking. British people say 'The Sudan' instead of just Sudan for the country in Africa.
We say 'The Congo' and The Yucatan (as mentioned earlier, too). The Sahara? I think that's okay, do you really need 'Desert' added? Baja is so famous,
it doesn't need California added!!! 
Oh, as for the Jesuits, etc. ; BAJA was just 'CALIFORNIA'... Not until 1769, with the push by Spain to establish missions north of the peninsula was
there two Californias (Antigua or Old and Nueva or New)... eventually changing to Baja (Lower) and Alta (Upper) California... When we (USA) dropped
the ALTA, we basically forced Mexico to keep the BAJA attached to the peninsula... but IT WAS CALIFORNIA FIRST!
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You would be surprised (or maybe not).. there are many who only get confused when one says Baja California... often they follow up by asking... "where
in California is that?"
:-) DUH!
Linda
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