Transplants vs DC Natives

[Anonymous]

I'm a transplant married to a native - and this whole thread is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I cant stand all you transplants - your lingo is the dead give away. I don't know anyone actually from hear who over and over and over wants to talk about people from "the district" or "DC proper" versus "the burbs." nobody here uses these phrases that I've ever known.

We talk more like this:

I'm from the DC or I'm from the DC area. Really, me too - where did you go to high school? Oh, did you know ____? Where are you living now? Oh, blah blah blah.

We say "inside the beltway" or "outside the beltway." We never say "burbs."

We do sometimes say "exburbs" though, particularly for Loudoun County. Frederick is just "fredneck" or for some "Urbana." Howard is just Howard.

x2. They should write this in a pamphlet for transplants to read so they all don't sound so goddam provincial and annoying.

+3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cant stand all you transplants - your lingo is the dead give away. I don't know anyone actually from hear who over and over and over wants to talk about people from "the district" or "DC proper" versus "the burbs." nobody here uses these phrases that I've ever known.

We talk more like this:

I'm from the DC or I'm from the DC area. Really, me too - where did you go to high school? Oh, did you know ____? Where are you living now? Oh, blah blah blah.

We say "inside the beltway" or "outside the beltway." We never say "burbs."

We do sometimes say "exburbs" though, particularly for Loudoun County. Frederick is just "fredneck" or for some "Urbana." Howard is just Howard.

x2. They should write this in a pamphlet for transplants to read so they all don't sound so goddam provincial and annoying.

How welcoming of you. :sarcasm:

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think transplants seem more infatuated with the area in general. They seem to view the city through perpetual rose colored glasses.

On the other hand, natives don't seem all that impressed. They don't seem to have the same thrill or appreciation that the transplants do, when seeing monuments or Dupont Circle other "DC" things

I find natives easily impressed and a little pompous, considering that they grew up in a far more modest area than what the transplants transformed D.C. into. Natives can pretend not to understand, but it becomes predictable.

This makes me laugh. Even when DC was perceived as a sleepy backwater town, it was still WASHINGTON, DC CAPITAL of the FREE WORLD.
I'm not saying San Diego, Portland, Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Nashville and Houston aren't lovely places, but I hardly think of these places as a bastion of elitism at the expense of DC as a modest upbringing.

Exactly. DC has always had a relatively small population, but a ridiculous amount of importance. The same cannot be said for the other cities mentioned.

Basically, unless you are from New York CITY (not state) or Los Angeles- sit down. Your cities just aren't as important.

Most of the "FREE WORLD" couldn't find Washington on the map. NYC or LA, for sure. In fact, they may still think that New York is the capital of the free world. DC had a "ridiculous amount of importance" in the eyes of very few people.

[Anonymous]

Like it - don't like it, but that's a ridiculous statement. Most people in the free world know exactly where DC is. You can't watch the fucking news with out it being mentioned. I agree this thread is absurd. First it made me mad and now it just makes me laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think transplants seem more infatuated with the area in general. They seem to view the city through perpetual rose colored glasses.

On the other hand, natives don't seem all that impressed. They don't seem to have the same thrill or appreciation that the transplants do, when seeing monuments or Dupont Circle other "DC" things

I find natives easily impressed and a little pompous, considering that they grew up in a far more modest area than what the transplants transformed D.C. into. Natives can pretend not to understand, but it becomes predictable.

This makes me laugh. Even when DC was perceived as a sleepy backwater town, it was still WASHINGTON, DC CAPITAL of the FREE WORLD.
I'm not saying San Diego, Portland, Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Nashville and Houston aren't lovely places, but I hardly think of these places as a bastion of elitism at the expense of DC as a modest upbringing.

Exactly. DC has always had a relatively small population, but a ridiculous amount of importance. The same cannot be said for the other cities mentioned.

Basically, unless you are from New York CITY (not state) or Los Angeles- sit down. Your cities just aren't as important.

Most of the "FREE WORLD" couldn't find Washington on the map. NYC or LA, for sure. In fact, they may still think that New York is the capital of the free world. DC had a "ridiculous amount of importance" in the eyes of very few people.

Bahahaha. This has to be one of the most absurd statements I've ever heard.

You clearly haven't travelled internationally very much....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cant stand all you transplants - your lingo is the dead give away. I don't know anyone actually from hear who over and over and over wants to talk about people from "the district" or "DC proper" versus "the burbs." nobody here uses these phrases that I've ever known.

We talk more like this:

I'm from the DC or I'm from the DC area. Really, me too - where did you go to high school? Oh, did you know ____? Where are you living now? Oh, blah blah blah.

We say "inside the beltway" or "outside the beltway." We never say "burbs."

We do sometimes say "exburbs" though, particularly for Loudoun County. Frederick is just "fredneck" or for some "Urbana." Howard is just Howard.

x2. They should write this in a pamphlet for transplants to read so they all don't sound so goddam provincial and annoying.

How welcoming of you. :sarcasm:

I don't think it was supposed to be welcoming...

[Anonymous]

If you are a native you pronounce the Glover in Glover Park to rhyme with lover, not over.

[Anonymous]

What is up with all of you local born racists calling yourselves natives? This is incredibly offensive to the true natives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a native you pronounce the Glover in Glover Park to rhyme with lover, not over.

Actually I'm a transplant and I used to say Glover/lover for years until I read a John Kelly column in the WaPo stating that it's been pronounced Glover/over since the 40s. Apparently a surviving member of the Glover family says that her family pronounces it Glover/lover (and is therefore annoyed with the neighborhood practice) but what I read in the WaPo is that the neighborhood is really Glover/over and has been that way for a long time.

Seriously, pp, it's embarrassing for me to have been wrong for lo these many years but that's what they wrote in the WaPo based on their investigations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a native you pronounce the Glover in Glover Park to rhyme with lover, not over.

Actually I'm a transplant and I used to say Glover/lover for years until I read a John Kelly column in the WaPo stating that it's been pronounced Glover/over since the 40s. Apparently a surviving member of the Glover family says that her family pronounces it Glover/lover (and is therefore annoyed with the neighborhood practice) but what I read in the WaPo is that the neighborhood is really Glover/over and has been that way for a long time.

Seriously, pp, it's embarrassing for me to have been wrong for lo these many years but that's what they wrote in the WaPo based on their investigations.

Personally I say Glover/over, but my BIL whose family goes back four generations in DC (and a street in that area is named for one of his forebears) always calls it Glover/lover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a native you pronounce the Glover in Glover Park to rhyme with lover, not over.

Actually I'm a transplant and I used to say Glover/lover for years until I read a John Kelly column in the WaPo stating that it's been pronounced Glover/over since the 40s. Apparently a surviving member of the Glover family says that her family pronounces it Glover/lover (and is therefore annoyed with the neighborhood practice) but what I read in the WaPo is that the neighborhood is really Glover/over and has been that way for a long time.

Seriously, pp, it's embarrassing for me to have been wrong for lo these many years but that's what they wrote in the WaPo based on their investigations.

Personally I say Glover/over, but my BIL whose family goes back four generations in DC (and a street in that area is named for one of his forebears) always calls it Glover/lover.

Everybody who lives in Glover Park pronounces Gluh-ver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a native you pronounce the Glover in Glover Park to rhyme with lover, not over.

Actually I'm a transplant and I used to say Glover/lover for years until I read a John Kelly column in the WaPo stating that it's been pronounced Glover/over since the 40s. Apparently a surviving member of the Glover family says that her family pronounces it Glover/lover (and is therefore annoyed with the neighborhood practice) but what I read in the WaPo is that the neighborhood is really Glover/over and has been that way for a long time.

Seriously, pp, it's embarrassing for me to have been wrong for lo these many years but that's what they wrote in the WaPo based on their investigations.

Regardless of what you read in the Post, Natives call it Glover (like lover). And we make the rules, so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cant stand all you transplants - your lingo is the dead give away. I don't know anyone actually from hear who over and over and over wants to talk about people from "the district" or "DC proper" versus "the burbs." nobody here uses these phrases that I've ever known.

We talk more like this:

I'm from the DC or I'm from the DC area. Really, me too - where did you go to high school? Oh, did you know ____? Where are you living now? Oh, blah blah blah.

We say "inside the beltway" or "outside the beltway." We never say "burbs."

We do sometimes say "exburbs" though, particularly for Loudoun County. Frederick is just "fredneck" or for some "Urbana." Howard is just Howard.

x2. They should write this in a pamphlet for transplants to read so they all don't sound so goddam provincial and annoying.

And I will take your pamphlet and throw it in your goddamn smug faces, and DARE you to do something about it.

Who in the HELL do you people think you are? You own nothing--absolutely NOTHING--but your shitty, crumbling, overpriced houses. Stay in your own lane and keep living in the past about how great this place used to be, but you WILL deal with the fact that transplants have come, we are here, some of us will stay, some of us won't, and there isn't a DAMN thing you can do about it.

I will call DC and it's surrounding areas whatever I want, and you won't do anything about it. Ever. Except get on here and complain about it, because that is the extent of your power and influence as a "native".

[Anonymous]

Uh, John Kelly is fucking wrong. Not that this is a surprise.