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Old Posted Apr 21, 2017, 3:49 AM
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Originally Posted by BobLoblawsLawBlog View Post
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.
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.
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