Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C...
by sbov on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:49PM
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This is very common on this forum. Bay Area = SF. In any given topic about the "Bay Area" you can tell they are usually talking about SF, and use very sloppy language and often randomly switch between the two names, sometimes in the same sentence.
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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C...
by tossaway1 on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:04PM
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That's because people outside the bay area don't care about the distinction. People don't generally differentiate between Boston and Cambridge either. Is that sloppy? I'd say it's just understood that references to a city are often, maybe usually, referring to the surrounding region as well.