Mangosniper comments on Homeowners oppose street name chosen by iwi, saying the 17-letter name is too long

[–] Mangosniper@feddit.de 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

How many of you actually did read the name? It's papakangahorohoro road. That's not toooo hard to remember. I already did. papa-kanga + 2x horo. It's not like it's eyjafjallajökull or something like that.

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Or something like Whangaparaoa road clutches pearls.

Also eyjafjallajökull is just fine if you're Icelandic.

Ditto every street name in Wales.

Papakangahorohoro (from memory thank you very much) is easy.

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[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Ditto every street name in Wales.

You should come to Aberdare, most of our street names are simple English words 🙈

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Aberdare

I admit I was making a poorly informed guess about street names in Wales.

Wales came to mind as NZ's currently rolling out bi-lingual road signs. Wales is held up as a model of successful deployment. A certain demographic are unhappy about this.

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[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago

It's all good. It just made me laugh when I was reading your post, surrounded by streets with names like Brook Street, George Street, Market Street, Wind Street, and Hill Street :D

Oh, and ignore the whiners. Our national park just changed its name from The Brecon Beacons to Bannau Brecheiniog, and I had an English woman telling me that it was discriminatory to a Welsh man she knows who can't speak Welsh...

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