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Originally Posted by BobLoblawsLawBlog
Who on earth thought it was a good idea to call the library nə́c̓aʔmat ct ? Who can pronounce that? I mean if you want that Salish/Haida aesthetic you can do that but not make the words look like a cat walking on a Vietnamese keyboard. Maybe Neycamatick as an Anglicism. This is pretty much like writing 我恨你
in Chinese and expecting people to understand what it says.
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Apparently,
that motion brought up last month got passed.
But yeah, it should be "Nahtsamahtst," possibly with the Musqueam spelling as a subscript; same reason we have the Khatsalano festival instead of the Xats'alanexw.