Give it about a year or two and it would just become normalized and dull. It would be funny for a month or two but after that it would be treated no more unusual as any other street name or map label. Even if you have funny names to people’s houses, eventually it all just gets normalized.
I’m indigenous Canadian and I speak my ojibway language and when I think about many of the common lakes and rivers and placenames I grew up with they’re all just places that translate to mundane things like … Rock River, Round Lake, Big Falls, Red Lake, Big Water, Muddy Water, Fast Flowing River, Trout River, etc, etc
That’s how Japan names most of its places as well. Sometimes they’re even less creative and start calling things 5th Gate City, or River 10.
And they don’t even name their residential roads, so addresses can get long (I think Korea also does this). When you write an address you have to write all the info from the biggest area and gradually narrowing: prefecture, city, ward, neighborhood
lol … I love Abbot and Costello … I watched a lot of the reruns as a kid in the 80s to know who they are. And I definitely remember this classic.
It made me think more about those Native named placenames … I remember one dad told me a long time ago was ‘Ptarmigan guts creek’ (it sounds weird and funny in Ojibway) … another was ‘Having Sex’ or ‘Fucking’ Rapids … for the longest time, I thought these places were a joke and didn’t exist. When I repeated them to many other people, they confirmed that this is what they were called.
Give it about a year or two and it would just become normalized and dull. It would be funny for a month or two but after that it would be treated no more unusual as any other street name or map label. Even if you have funny names to people’s houses, eventually it all just gets normalized.
I’m indigenous Canadian and I speak my ojibway language and when I think about many of the common lakes and rivers and placenames I grew up with they’re all just places that translate to mundane things like … Rock River, Round Lake, Big Falls, Red Lake, Big Water, Muddy Water, Fast Flowing River, Trout River, etc, etc
That’s how Japan names most of its places as well. Sometimes they’re even less creative and start calling things 5th Gate City, or River 10.
And they don’t even name their residential roads, so addresses can get long (I think Korea also does this). When you write an address you have to write all the info from the biggest area and gradually narrowing: prefecture, city, ward, neighborhood
Well that’s a problem for future us.
Present us can poke fun, have a laugh, and maybe even turn it into an Abbott and Costello joke.
lol … I love Abbot and Costello … I watched a lot of the reruns as a kid in the 80s to know who they are. And I definitely remember this classic.
It made me think more about those Native named placenames … I remember one dad told me a long time ago was ‘Ptarmigan guts creek’ (it sounds weird and funny in Ojibway) … another was ‘Having Sex’ or ‘Fucking’ Rapids … for the longest time, I thought these places were a joke and didn’t exist. When I repeated them to many other people, they confirmed that this is what they were called.