This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Los Angelinos Love to ...Los Angelinos love to talk “routes” Routes.  Better known to us Aussies as which way to go. We call them “roots” they call them “rowtes” (row as in argument not what you do in a boat).  However you say it Los Angelinos love to talk about it.  It starts every conversation when you meet up somewhere, and it will be the last conversation you will have when you part ways. “Which way are you going…?” “Which way did you come…?” “Did you take the 405…?” “Which way should we go, the 101 is busy at this time of day, is it quicker to use the side streets?” Even recently, when an Australian friend was talking about which way her friends were going on the way from the airport to her place, she said this: “From LAX they took the 105 to the 10 to the 101….”  Only at the end did she say “they went via Downtown.” The sad part about that is not that she just didn’t say, “yeah, they went via Downtown,” it’s that I actually could picture the “route” (said with an American […]

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