rabber@lemmy.ca to Ask LemmyEnglish · 13 days agoWhat cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?message-squaremessage-square221linkfedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up196arrow-down1message-squareWhat cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?rabber@lemmy.ca to Ask LemmyEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square221linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppenlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·12 days agoAnd Lubbock. Also anything west of Fort Worth on Interstate 20. That is the most soul sucking run of highway in the US.
minus-squareEnsign_CrablinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoAnything in or near the scar of the Dust Bowl is gonna feel just a bit wrong.
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppenlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-212 days agoInterstate 20 is its own special type of wrong. Fracking for about 200 miles between Pecos and Colorado City.
minus-squareJohnnyEnzyme@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·13 days agoI remember stopping through there, once. I recall instantly pissing off one of the locals for pronouncing the name correctly.
minus-squareEnsign_CrablinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·13 days agoIt mostly comes down to how the double L is pronounced. Locals pronounce it like the double L in “yellow”. The Spanish word for yellow is pronounced with its double L as a sound closer to a Y. Like the double L in “tortilla.”
Amarillo.
And Lubbock. Also anything west of Fort Worth on Interstate 20. That is the most soul sucking run of highway in the US.
Anything in or near the scar of the Dust Bowl is gonna feel just a bit wrong.
Interstate 20 is its own special type of wrong. Fracking for about 200 miles between Pecos and Colorado City.
I remember stopping through there, once. I recall instantly pissing off one of the locals for pronouncing the name correctly.
hows that?
It mostly comes down to how the double L is pronounced. Locals pronounce it like the double L in “yellow”.
The Spanish word for yellow is pronounced with its double L as a sound closer to a Y. Like the double L in “tortilla.”