@quixoticgeek Had to look it up for myself, and bingo, Dominic Roussel has photographed the street signs on the pin.
Personally I'd have put This Street above That Street for a more authentic linguistic treatment, but that's just being picky about this.
@weirdestate this caused merry hell with anything trying to automatically match my address when I lived there
@weirdestate the worst offender was AAMI car insurance, who decided I lived on The HWY
@jpm @weirdestate neighbours with Bon Jovi?
@weirdestate I had the same thought when I found myself looking at Street Lane (in Leeds, UK) recently.
@nocto @weirdestate then there's the day the street namer just... Gave up ...
@quixoticgeek Had to look it up for myself, and bingo, Dominic Roussel has photographed the street signs on the pin.
Personally I'd have put This Street above That Street for a more authentic linguistic treatment, but that's just being picky about this.
@blag @quixoticgeek What really stands out to me about this phenomenon is that the world is chock full of streets named after men. Very few are named after women. But rather than take that opportunity, they'd rather just have it be generic.
@quixoticgeek @nocto @weirdestate
- Excuse me, is this That Street?
- No, this is The Other Street. That Street is the other street far beyond. And that street over there is This Street.
@quixoticgeek @nocto @weirdestate Where in the world is that?
@quixoticgeek @nocto @weirdestate idk, I do Naming Things for a living, and that would be a career high point tbh
@quixoticgeek @nocto @weirdestate somewhere in Canada there is the Big Ass Lake and I think that's just beautiful
@quixoticgeek @nocto @weirdestate @wordshaper I appreciate their aspirational lack of arsedness
@nocto @weirdestate Ah yes, Street Lane which joins at one point with Park Avenue (which is a tree-lined road leading to a park).
@cstross @nocto @weirdestate Is there a Lane Street as well, for maximum fuckedness?
For a while I had an office on something street (not literally “something”, just forgot what) which was 2 blocks over from something lane which was the major thoroughfare. Nice. Lots of confused people who couldn’t find it.
