• shininghero@pawb.social
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    13 days ago

    I’ll be a silly little gremlin and name the people on those streets then.

    You’ve got Who’s house on first, What’s on second, and I Dunno’s on third.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      13 days ago

      Give it about a year or two and it would just become normalized and dull. It would be funny for a month or two but after that it would be treated no more unusual as any other street name or map label. Even if you have funny names to people’s houses, eventually it all just gets normalized.

      I’m indigenous Canadian and I speak my ojibway language and when I think about many of the common lakes and rivers and placenames I grew up with they’re all just places that translate to mundane things like … Rock River, Round Lake, Big Falls, Red Lake, Big Water, Muddy Water, Fast Flowing River, Trout River, etc, etc

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        13 days ago

        Round Lake, Big Falls, Red Lake, Big Water

        That’s how Japan names most of its places as well. Sometimes they’re even less creative and start calling things 5th Gate City, or River 10.

        And they don’t even name their residential roads, so addresses can get long (I think Korea also does this). When you write an address you have to write all the info from the biggest area and gradually narrowing: prefecture, city, ward, neighborhood