Pranesh Prakash [2013-09-07 10:21]:
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:I must remark on the modesty of those who go to Ivy League schools. If they are at Harvard, they say "Cambridge"...if at Stanford, they say, "California"...if Yale, it's "New Haven"...someone even told me he's going to "Alameda County", I am not kidding....why is this? Are these people afraid of the evil eye, or of envy....?Haha. It might also be that they're afraid of their friends who're already in those places. At one point in a chat with a friend in Yale I used "Yale" as a geographic designator, but she insisted on using Yale as a university designator and New Haven as a geographic designator. Perhaps that rubbed off?
When I told that friend about this thread, she told me that I was supposed to say "Connecticut area" not "New Haven" :-)
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