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On Saturday Oct. 25, 2008 during the second half of the show (I believe), a caller ask you to help her find a phrase for her to use when she is asked where she lives. She lives in Marin County half the time and stays in San Diego county the other half.
I don't have the exact phrase to use but I can suggest two words that I'm sure can be put to the use she desires, She travels from "FOG to SMOG".
How's that?
Hope this is a help.
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Shirley Bellero
Suggestion: As "transhumance" refers to seasonal migration in the context of livestock care (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance), and the question arises in the context of grandchildren (closely related to livestock, if I understand correctly), these people could be called "transhumans", more specifically "California transhumans".
Also, reference "orientate": In my military service (27 years), I heard this often from soldiers who acquired much of their literacy in the Army. It's simply the regular verb form created from the noun "orientation". We understand that "orientation" is a noun created from the verb "to orient" (itself created somehow I suppose from "orient" meaning "east"). Try to pronounce "orientshun". Hard. So, for ease of pronunciation we throw in the extra syllable. But soldiers who recognize the pattern of "-ation" and "-ate" from other word just apply it here.
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Martha Barnette
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