The city of Vancouver is poised to rename Trutch Street on the city’s west side to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street, a word drawn from the language of the Musqueam First Nation. This will mark the first time a city street is officially named using an alphabet other than English in Canada.
That defeats the purpose of it being a street name. Imagine having to learn a second alphabet, just to be able to write it down. The nicknames for this street are going to be funny.
This will mark the first time a city street is officially named using an alphabet other than English in Canada.
Who is the retarded journalist too fucking lazy to spend 2 minutes googling to find syllabic alphabet commonly used to write Inuktitut ( and some related eskimo languages ) and by some Cree towns, including street names in Nunavut and some other parts of Canada?
Imagine trying to mail something there. Or call emergency services.
''Nine one one, what's your emergency?''
''Someone collapsed on the side of the road and she dosen't breathe. Please send help fast.''
''On which street are you?''
''...''
''Hello?''
''... No fucking clue. Either I'm having a stroke or it's a bunch of mangled characters. Sfahdkjadhaifhacnlnxasdnansahd or something''
I knew a guy BITD that everyone suspected was still in the closet and was a caricature at the time of being a West Coast NPC.
I recall he unsolicitedly told me that the Musqueam people weren't actually a distinct tribe but simply were an away party from another band that happened to be at the mouth of the Fraser River upon first contact. This was surrounding some institutional proto-woke virtue signaling/land acknowledgment agitprop at the time.
I'm sure the dude that told me that is currently boosted 8 times with a seething case of TDS. But I guess it also shows that a some of the crunchy shitlibs at one time had a shred of based skepticism to them as well before they were completely swallowed by Moloch.
officially named using an alphabet other than English in Canada.
Dunno what "alphabet" it is, but it's not a native one. Unless that native tribe just purely coincidentally happened to use nothing but symbols derived from European alphabets.
Did any of the Native American tribes even have a written language?
How many times will they have to replace the street sign before they give up? That seems like a it will be a high-value target for theft, like 'High St.' and 'Butte St.' always are.
I looked how the hell you're supposed to pronounce this, and it's "mus-queem-awesome" or something to that effect. Also the language that's from doesn't even have any fluent speakers alive anymore.
That defeats the purpose of it being a street name. Imagine having to learn a second alphabet, just to be able to write it down. The nicknames for this street are going to be funny.
Kind of funny having to write out a "name" for a culture that was too stupid to invent literacy.
Who is the retarded journalist too fucking lazy to spend 2 minutes googling to find syllabic alphabet commonly used to write Inuktitut ( and some related eskimo languages ) and by some Cree towns, including street names in Nunavut and some other parts of Canada?
Imagine trying to mail something there. Or call emergency services.
''Nine one one, what's your emergency?''
''Someone collapsed on the side of the road and she dosen't breathe. Please send help fast.''
''On which street are you?''
''...''
''Hello?''
''... No fucking clue. Either I'm having a stroke or it's a bunch of mangled characters. Sfahdkjadhaifhacnlnxasdnansahd or something''
''Oh, that fucking street.''
This won't work because now that they've successfully claimed one street they'll begin applying this to more of them.
Just schedule your cable installation on the phone, just spell that bitch
I knew a guy BITD that everyone suspected was still in the closet and was a caricature at the time of being a West Coast NPC.
I recall he unsolicitedly told me that the Musqueam people weren't actually a distinct tribe but simply were an away party from another band that happened to be at the mouth of the Fraser River upon first contact. This was surrounding some institutional proto-woke virtue signaling/land acknowledgment agitprop at the time.
I'm sure the dude that told me that is currently boosted 8 times with a seething case of TDS. But I guess it also shows that a some of the crunchy shitlibs at one time had a shred of based skepticism to them as well before they were completely swallowed by Moloch.
Dunno what "alphabet" it is, but it's not a native one. Unless that native tribe just purely coincidentally happened to use nothing but symbols derived from European alphabets.
Did any of the Native American tribes even have a written language?
It's left-progressive coddling of exotic ethnic types.
There's one around where I live that uses the regular alphabet and has an Indian name, cannot pronounce it.
In a sensible country the person who proposed this would be tarred and feathered.
With eagle feathers?
This fake writing system looks more like a text encoding error.
Normalize self-hating whites killing themselves instead of teaming up with shitskins to drag the rest us down with them.
Fuck making Canada a US state.
Let's make it a territory!
We'll be greeted as liberators™.
Only if we can rename the street back. Really it needs to be a territory with no voting rights and they do what we tell em.
I want my street name in Wingdings!
Wingdings is superior. It's functionally just a substitution cipher with non-standard characters.
I got no clue how you switch Trutch to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm
This mah daughter, šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm.
How many times will they have to replace the street sign before they give up? That seems like a it will be a high-value target for theft, like 'High St.' and 'Butte St.' always are.
Gotta say, canada is such a cartoonist place they have streets translated into Simlish
I looked how the hell you're supposed to pronounce this, and it's "mus-queem-awesome" or something to that effect. Also the language that's from doesn't even have any fluent speakers alive anymore.
My advice for dealing with this is to vandalize the new sign by tagging on the old name or replacing the sign with one with the old name.