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25. 04. 08

San Francisco walks, 6.

There are a lot of places in Cal­i­for­nia named after saints. And since the Span­ish mis­sion­ar­ies were here well before any English-speaking Amer­i­cans (or the Rus­sians, who came down from Alaska and left their mark on place-names like Russ­ian River), these towns start with San or Santa, depend­ing on the saint’s gen­der. As in San Jose, Santa Bar­bara, San Rafael, Santa Clara, and, of course San Fran­cisco. This one I found on a shop sign near Wash­ing­ton Square.

Never heard of that Saint.

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6 Responses to “San Francisco walks, 6.”:


 

1

I’m no expert in Japan­ese but In fact I believe it means “3000” in Japanese.

- San is Japan­ese for 3
 – Sen is thou­sand. (but takes on a Z sound fol­low­ing a voiced con­so­nant line “n”)

3000 Nails?

 

2

I always thought it meant “With­out Nails.”

 

3

i think theres no saint with that name hehe it sounds more like japanese

 

4

zen is a schools of bud­dhism, 1000 is “sen”.

 

5

I can­not believe how every­body is tak­ing my lit­tle joke so seri­ously. It was all about San, as in San Fran­cisco. I do know what Zen stands for, except on nail studios.

 

6

nah, the joke is well received. just show­ing off my uber-weak japanese :]

 






 

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