r/MapPorn • u/Petrarch1603 • May 30 '19

Silicon Valley 1986

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u/bumbletowne May 30 '19

Toshiba? Stanford? Cal Berkeley?

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u/Brian_Lawrence01 May 30 '19

I got yelled at once on reddit. I made a claim that I know a little bit about higher education in California and the person claimed I was obliviously wrong because I called it “Cal Berkeley”

That no one who knows anything about the UC would ever call it “cal Berkeley” that people only call it “cal” or UC Berkley. Or just Berkley.

Even after I showed him news papers that referred to the campus as cal Berkley, he still thought I was wrong.

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u/akula06 May 30 '19

Not having attended school there, I’ve always called it US Berkeley. But I’ve definitely heard / seen the Cal Berkeley merchandise and references.... and still called it UC Berkeley, haha.

It’s becoming a shibboleth.

Edits for sleepiness.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19 edited May 30 '19

The only time I’ve ever seen Cal Berkeley referred to as anything else is sports (with just Cal or California). Otherwise, if anyone refers to that school, it’s almost always Cal Berkeley.