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Post: Banning 'cumbersome' names discriminates

I wonder what they would say about "Trethewey Drive". It took me about five years and practice to get that right, I still remember having to mouth it out the first time I saw it.

So, as far as I'm concerned, bring on the "Ananthapavans" and "Dikrasoychokkas". Perhaps if they offend some, we could combine them with the insipidity of Observer's examples, into "Silver Dakrochowbatty Way", or "Pattorbikary View Drive".
 
Where did that essay come from?

Oh, and it overlooks the post-DeHav history of the site, i.e. as one of the three true "wartime housing" compounds in the 416 (the others being Royal York + Queensway; and St. Clair nr O'Connor)
 
You know those subdivisions with lots of crescents and Monopoly-piece clapboard Cape Cod bungalows? (*Very* recognizable on a map.) They were built by the Crown corporation Wartime Housing Ltd (which morphed into the CMHC postwar)
 
was just reading up on that corp. and found out that they were the ones that built regent park. :eek
 
Seems strange that Canadian names like Tuktoyaktuk might be banned.
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Calling Tuktoyaktuk a Canadian name is about as accurate as calling Lhasa a Chinese name...or Athens a Roman name...or Paris, Prague, and Warsaw German names... At what point does the culture of the conquered get claimed by the conqueror?
 
Historically, we're almost all conquerors, so by Brighter's reasoning "Paris" is not a French name either, nor is "Buenos Aires" Argentinian. As interchange sort of points out, there is no "Canada" that isn't "conquered", so by that measure "Toronto" and "Regina" are not Canadian names either. Sheesh. Whatever.
 
In reference to a comment made above: To be clear, this discussion is not at all about being offended that the name is from a minority culture.

This is about the reality that people could literally die because emergency workers are confusing names that are hard to pronounce.
 
Do emergency workers really even use street names and numbers? I was under the impression geocodes were the norm.
 
Calling Tuktoyaktuk a Canadian name is about as accurate as calling Lhasa a Chinese name...or Athens a Roman name...or Paris, Prague, and Warsaw German names... At what point does the culture of the conquered get claimed by the conqueror?
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I don't think so. What is Canada if not multicultural? China, Greece, and Germany are ethnic origins with Chinese, Greek, and German being both nationalities and languages. I don't think Canada can be seen as an ethnic origin. Tuktoyaktuk is a Canadian name as it is a place in Canada, named by people who founded that place, lived in by the decendants of the founders, and those people are Canadian as much as any other person in this country because Canadian is not a language nor an enthnicity. For that matter if the EMS attendants first language was Arabic and the 911 callers first language is Chinese which street name is really the one easiest to pronounce, one in English, one in Arabic, or one in Chinese?
 
This is about the reality that people could literally die because emergency workers are confusing names that are hard to pronounce.
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No. They learn them. If that was the concern, then we'd have all numbered streets. No names.

This law was indeed too vague to be enforced. There area already plenty of names in Toronto that one might consider cumbersome and you'd only know how to pronounce it from living here.

Roncesvalles, Yonge, Spadina, Bessarion, Ardagh, etc.
 
"This Way"?! You can't be serious. No, not "this way", "that way"!

AoD

EDIT: I take it back...just noticed there is a "that way"...
 
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