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North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs (www.bbc.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They have a point, though. It's digital representation that should reflect real world, not the other way around.

In the same way I can totally imagine truncating street signs with names too long for a char(16) field someone came up with when creating a DB. Reminds me of people making logistics software and limiting Zip codes to be 6 digits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In this case the digital representation reshapes the real world and that makes me uneasy and weird feeling for some reason

Edit: was meant to post to the post above yours