Offenbar für L.A.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter...

Ich denke, das ist nicht ganz Kalifornien, sondern nur LA...

ursprünglich war wohl Los Angeles gemeint:

http://www.answers.com/topic/la-la-land

heute im übertragenen Sinne "unseriös"

Wortspiel
1. Los Angeles, California (often abbreviated L.A.). This expression pokes fun at the alleged eccentricities of the city's inhabitants. For example, What do you expect? Frederick has lived in la-la land for ten years and it has rubbed off on him. [Slang; c. 1980]
2. A state of being out of touch with reality, as in I don't know what's going on with Amy--she seems to be in la-la land. [Slang; c. 1980]

Aha. Danke. Auf den ersten Teil La-la = L.A. hatte man auch so kommen können. Aber vermutlich war ich selbst noch in la-la land :-)

Kann man Schlaraffenland für La-la-land benutzen? Benutzt man das Wort "Schlaraffenland" oft in Deutsch?

Auf A.Englisch sagt man, dass ein Person in "La-la land" ist, wenn er nicht aufpasst, oder wenn er kein Arbeit macht, kein Arbeit machen will, oder faul ist.

Das Schlaraffenland ist ein Ort des Überflusses, ein Ort, an dem man immer genug zu essen hat und nie Not leiden muss:

Dictionary: schlaraffenland

Als Übersetzung für La-la Land passt das nicht.

The more general sense of 'la-la land' is a dazed, confused mental state where a person is less than fully conscious or aware. Someone who is hallucinating or tripping out on drugs might be in la-la land. To me the image is of someone just sitting and singing or babbling nonsense syllables: 'La la la ...'

By extension it's used figuratively to mean completely out of touch with reality -- you could say, for example, that a politician was living in la-la land if his or her proposals were utterly loony, not remotely possible in the real world.

The speaker extends that sense one step further by making the implied play on words on 'L.A.' It's not familiar to me as an established expression meaning L.A. -- not like the Big Apple for New York or the Windy City for Chicago -- but it's an easily understandable play on words, because of the reputation of L.A. and California for both drugs and a dreamlike, happy-go-lucky lifestyle.

The original quote probably says 'a column,' BTW; the narrator seems to be a writer or columnist looking for ideas.

The title of the mystery sounds great -- death is usually what happens to me when I come up against the 6-star Sudoku at the end of the week. (-: (But actually, the last couple of Saturdays, I finished it! Probably just a fluke ...)

careful, hm -- us, resurrected thread!
In #7, I answered #6; the OP is more than seven years old

So if I post now to say I'm sorry I posted, everyone will have to read it again? \-;

Sorry ...

2. A state of being out of touch with reality, as in I don't know what's going on with Amy--she seems to be in la-la land.

Ummm, are you guys (sorry hm) trying to tell me something?