cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/217784
Signposts on the Vancouver street bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet.
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w isn’t even a real letter
Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name
Submitted 14 hours ago by grue@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://globalnews.ca/news/11265368/vancouver-man-institutions-new-indigenous-street-name/
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RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 hours ago
Uff@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yet another anglosaxon government suppressing non anglosaxon culture
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Anglo-Saxon? Lmao what a bizarre way to talk. Not that it even makes sense considering Anglo-Saxon settlers in the US weren’t even close to being the majority.
It’s down to unicode support. Not a plot from Anglo-Saxons to keep others in their place lol
grue@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
To be fair, not considering unicode support a priority is a pretty damn English-language-centric attitude.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 12 hours ago
Nice trolling, dude.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (pronounced sh-MUS-quee-um-AW-
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
My closest attempt at pronouncing that:
echo 'šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm' | aplay -c 1 -f u8 -r 2000 -t raw -funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
as written it should be pronounced
shw-meth-quey-em-ass-em
where the shw is throaty - is it different because of the language?
lime@feddit.nu 6 hours ago
are you thinking because of the use of IPA characters? because those have defined sounds only within the IPA.
Maxx0r@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I found this interesting since it’s basically about unicode support, so I did some research. This article seems bullshit, it seems like rhe residents are expected to use the english version of the streetname (Musqueamview) and not the indigenous one with uncommon letters. So, the problems described is totally fabricated. But also: databases shouldn’t forbid uncommon unicode letters if it isn’t called for.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I stumble across this issue quite often. When you fill out a form for US customs, you are both required to provide exact data and you are only allowed a-z, 0-9, and some punctuation. That you cannot fulfil both because they are mutually exclusive does not cross their blessed little minds.