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Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name (globalnews.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://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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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yet another anglosaxon government suppressing non anglosaxon culture

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    To be fair, not considering unicode support a priority is a pretty damn English-language-centric attitude.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Arguably. Or it's just what the dev team was used to. Or a bunch of other explanations.

    I just don't find "a historic Germanic group of settlers that immigrated to medieval Britain are purposely neglecting unicode support as a means to suppress people that aren't part of their group."

    Going through their post history, they seem obsessed with the "Anglo Saxons".

    Just a bizarre conspiracy theory from a one day old account that's also advocating for genociding everyone in the middle east lol

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