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The road sign city name photo game

Started by Scott5114, December 29, 2016, 05:38:40 PM

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Alexandria >> Aubrey (Arkansas)

Clarendon is also available to play off of because of the Y rule.

I take pictures of road signs, that's about it.

General rule of thumb: Just stay in the "Traffic Control" section of the forum and you'll be fine.


csw


kphoger

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Quote from: 1 on November 04, 2018, 05:05:46 PM
The Ş→s is allowed. There was discussion earlier about a possible ß ending the game, and it was decided to use the closest approximation to that letter (transliteration, not closest look-alike). I can't find it, though, because of the search feature's "each word must contain two or more characters" rule prohibiting me from searching this thread for a ß.

I'm not sure that was ever settled.  All that appears to be settled is that D→Þ is disallowednoelbotevera ended up making a D→D play instead.  Besides which, none of that conversation included a post by Scott5114, and no update to the OP was made to include a ruling one way or the other.  There's also the matter of what, exactly, is meant by 'transliteration'.  Since both letters are part of Latin-based alphabets, it's not quite the same thing as going from Π to P.  The Turkish letter Ş is pronounced as /sh/.

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Quote from: Darkchylde on March 05, 2017, 09:16:14 PM
Quote from: oscar on March 05, 2017, 09:07:07 PM
I don't see any place on that sign that starts with "d". Two that start with a weird character that looks like a blend of "b" and "p", but unless you can confirm that transliterates to "d", I wouldn't count it. )What language is it in, anyway?)

Anyway, the first time you posted that photo, it was interesting. But a bit soon to recycle it, especially if you have to stretch to use it.
It's a "Þ", which is the Old English "thorn" letter, and survives in use only in Icelandic. It roughly transliterates into a "th" sound.

In other words, noelbotevera needs to make a different play.

So I think we need an official word from Scott5114 on foreign letters.

Ş → Ş only?
Ş → Ş or S?
Ş → Ş or SH?
Ş → Ş or S or SH?

Broadening this to the original issue quoted above, I should point out not only is Þ pronounced as /th/–but also that it also existed in Old English and later morphed into the modern English letter Y (as in Ye Olde, which in modern spelling is The Old).  And so, therefore, the letter Þ could end up being ruled as one of the following:

Þ → Þ only?
Þ → Þ or Y?
Þ → Þ or TH?
Þ → Þ or Y or TH?
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

CNGL-Leudimin

I want now to play a town ending with a vowel with an acute :bigass:. However that would be easy to solve, as otherwise is a regular vowel (at least in Spanish). We've had cyrillic before.
Supporter of the construction of several running gags, including I-366 with a speed limit of 85 mph (137 km/h) and the Hypotenuse.

Please note that I may mention "invalid" FM channels, i.e. ending in an even number or down to 87.5. These are valid in Europe.

Eth

Quote from: kphoger on November 05, 2018, 02:12:44 PM
Broadening this to the original issue quoted above, I should point out not only is Þ pronounced as /th/–but also that it also existed in Old English and later morphed into the modern English letter Y (as in Ye Olde, which in modern spelling is The Old).  And so, therefore, the letter Þ could end up being ruled as one of the following:

Þ → Þ only?
Þ → Þ or Y?
Þ → Þ or TH?
Þ → Þ or Y or TH?

Arguably a moot point:

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) (emphasis mine)
The letter is the 30th in the Icelandic alphabet; it is transliterated to th when it cannot be reproduced and never appears at the end of a word.

Though on the subject of Icelandic letters, there is also my namesake, Ð, which can come into play:

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth
Eth (/ɛð/, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð) ... is often transliterated as d (and d- is rarely used as a mnemonic).

formulanone


oscar

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kphoger

ENNISSAN BERNARDINO (California)


[from a blog post by Californians for Population Stabilization]
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

oscar

San Bernadino => Oguawka (IL), or per A rule Gulfport, Burlington, or Gladstone:

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Truvelo

Speed limits limit life

oscar

Armagh => Hilbert (WI), photo previously played for Manitowoc:

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Truvelo

Speed limits limit life

kphoger

TREMONTTRIPOLI (Lebanon)


[from a blog post by Micheline Hazou]
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

paulthemapguy

Avatar is the last interesting highway I clinched.
My website! http://www.paulacrossamerica.com Now featuring all of Ohio!
My USA Shield Gallery https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHwJRZk
TM Clinches https://bit.ly/2UwRs4O

National collection status: 361/425. Only 64 route markers remain

oscar

my Hot Springs and Highways pages, with links to my roads sites:
http://www.alaskaroads.com/home.html

Truvelo

Speed limits limit life

oscar

Hollidaysburg => Georgia (NJ), or per A rule Jackson Mills:

my Hot Springs and Highways pages, with links to my roads sites:
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Truvelo

Speed limits limit life

kphoger

SOUTHAMPTONNAYPYITAW (Myanmar)
with furlongs for your amusement


[snipped from a Wikipedia image]
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

hotdogPi

Clinched, minus I-93 (I'm missing a few miles and my file is incorrect)

Traveled, plus US 13, 44, and 50, and several state routes

I will be in Burlington VT for the eclipse.

oscar

Weymouth => Hereford (TX), photo previously played for Dimmitt:

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Truvelo

Speed limits limit life

Henry

Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go! Hey Chicago, what do you say? The Cubs are gonna win today!

paulthemapguy

Avatar is the last interesting highway I clinched.
My website! http://www.paulacrossamerica.com Now featuring all of Ohio!
My USA Shield Gallery https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHwJRZk
TM Clinches https://bit.ly/2UwRs4O

National collection status: 361/425. Only 64 route markers remain

kphoger

NOKOMISSAMARQAND (Uzbekistan)


[from a blog post by Wej and Jaokim, a couple of Swedish cyclists]
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.



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