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For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided into Three Separate Cities
- rawdan 10y agoI don't know if I should be impressed by their ingenuity or disgusted by their reasoning.
- restalis 10y agoDivide & Conquer is an old trick, no ingenuity there.
- DiNovi 10y agoA quirk resulting from this is that New Orleanians refer to medians as "neutral grounds," as there was a median separating the american sector from the french quarter where trade between the two occured(this is now canal st.).
- NOSHSHNACKERS 10y agonutra ground.. like nutra rat. I thought as a kid giant rats lived in the there. You would see dead nutria on the side of the road as a kid and there you go.. nightmares
- cafard 10y agoIsn't "neutral ground" for "median" a British usage?
- cannam 10y agoI'm British and I didn't recognise either term. I had to head for Wikipedia to translate to British English ("central reservation").
- cafard 10y agoI was wrong. My thinking seems to have been "I've seen that before; the British have a different term; ergo it's British." In fact, "neutral ground" was familiar from Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, which is set in New Orleans.
- Gusbenz 10y ago#maps
- raintrees 10y agoI am unfamiliar with New Orleans' history and am confused by the article: "The Second Municipality, which the Americans controlled..." and "The First Municipality included all of the French Quarter..." Then I read "In the First Municipality, English was the language of commerce and government; in the other two, French dominated." Did the Second Municipality, American-controlled, have the French language dominate? Or is one of the preceding sets of statements off a bit?
- NoGravitas 10y agoThe second set of statements is in error...it should read "In the Second Municipality, English...".
- raintrees 10y agoThanks.
- dsfyu404ed 10y agoSo basically, a bunch of rich white people moved somewhere and promtply shit the place up with the morals they brought with them....history certainly does repeat itself. If only the newcomers of today could be satisfied with their own section of a particular city
- michaelvoz 10y agoYou seem angry.
- twic 10y agoGood to see the verb "whap" getting an outing. Is that a word with which American readers are familiar?
- kls 10y agoIn the south it is a colloquialism used by older generations. I heard it all the time when I was a child, but it has fallen out of favor (even in the south) with the rise of TV English.
- pimlottc 10y agoGrew up in Northeast Ohio, never knew there was anything unusual about it until your comment.