Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 222

MolsonExport · #**4421** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 1:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Nice catch. Probably due to our current provincial government’s desire to be the 51st state.

Yankee doodle. Or maybe Dixie shit.

-not an Idiot.

Acajack · #**4422** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 2:01 PM**

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I'd be surprised in anyone questioned the difference in the signs when they were installed and likely ordered from an American sign manufacturers catalogue.

Or "catalog"?

I always spell it "catalogue" in both languages.

kwoldtimer · #**4423** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 2:13 PM**

I don't think I've ever seen (or at least noticed), "catalog" before. I did not know the Americans spelled catalogue differently, although it makes sense that they do. Learn something new every day ...

Innsertnamehere · #**4424** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 2:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I don't think I've ever seen (or at least noticed), "catalog" before. I did not know the Americans spelled catalogue differently, although it makes sense that they do. Learn something new every day ...

There are a lot more differences in spelling between Canada and the US than many realize.. If you read a US news article and pay attention to spelling, they are everywhere. There is the standard neighbor/neighbour, harbor/harbour, color/colour, etc., then there is center/centre, check/cheque, catalog/catalogue, meter/metre (well, foot/metre, haha), etc.

O-tacular · #**4425** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

There are a lot more differences in spelling between Canada and the US than many realize.. If you read a US news article and pay attention to spelling, they are everywhere. There is the standard neighbor/neighbour, harbor/harbour, color/colour, etc., then there is center/centre, check/cheque, catalog/catalogue, meter/metre (well, foot/metre, haha), etc.

American english is the dumbed down version.

kwoldtimer · #**4426** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 2:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

American english is the dumbed down version.

Be kind - it's simplified.

O-tacular · #**4427** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 3:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Yankee doodle. Or maybe Dixie shit.

-not an Idiot.

As the name for our State? What about AlaBerta?

Our beloved Premier would approve. Here he is embracing American culture.

O-tacular · #**4428** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 3:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Be kind - it's simplified.

Part and parcel of 'Murican exceptionalism.

MolsonExport · #**4429** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 6:58 PM**

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As the name for our State? What about AlaBerta?

Our beloved Premier would approve. Here he is embracing American culture.

Hamberders

Proof Sheet · #**4430** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 7:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

There are a lot more differences in spelling between Canada and the US than many realize.. If you read a US news article and pay attention to spelling, they are everywhere. There is the standard neighbor/neighbour, harbor/harbour, color/colour, etc., then there is center/centre, check/cheque, catalog/catalogue, meter/metre (well, foot/metre, haha), etc.

I wasn't aware that Muricans used metre as a means of measurement.

In general, Canadian spelling matches UK spelling except for a few words such as , kerb/curb, tyre/tire and maybe programme/program and aluminium/aluminum.

There are many examples of different words to mean the same thing or expressions that don't easily translate...ie. zebra crossing.

Acajack · #**4431** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 7:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

I wasn't aware that Muricans used metre as a means of measurement.

In general, Canadian spelling matches UK spelling except for a few words such as , kerb/curb, tyre/tire and maybe programme/program and aluminium/aluminum.

There are many examples of different words to mean the same thing or expressions that don't easily translate...ie. zebra crossing.

Are there two potential meanings for zebra crossing that can cause confusion?

I wouldn't use zebra crossing when speaking English here, but I have a picture in my mind of what it is. It doesn't involve African land mammals.

Proof Sheet · #**4432** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 8:24 PM**

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Are there two potential meanings for zebra crossing that can cause confusion?

I wouldn't use zebra crossing when speaking English here, but I have a picture in my mind of what it is. It doesn't involve African land mammals.

Usually referred to as a cross walk here.

Another term to confuse people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_crossing

Similarly sleeping policeman/speed bump

osirisboy · #**4433** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 9:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

If they did NY style townhouses on those lots instead of suburban McMansions, it could have ended up looking good...

I was going to say something similar. It has nothing to do with the size of the house relative to the lot size. Look at all the 100 year old brick Victorian homes that take up basically all of the lot size.

kwoldtimer · #**4434** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 9:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Are there two potential meanings for zebra crossing that can cause confusion?

I wouldn't use zebra crossing when speaking English here, but I have a picture in my mind of what it is. It doesn't involve African land mammals.

Zebra crossing = crosswalk. No confusion. Although the British pronunciation of “zebra” ...

kwoldtimer · #**4435** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 9:23 PM**

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I was going to say something similar. It has nothing to do with the size of the house relative to the lot size. Look at all the 100 year old brick Victorian homes that take up basically all of the lot size.

The demographic in the Vaughn example demands detached homes vs row houses. Re the small lot size, isn’t that what’s happening with housing generally (in Ontario, at least)? It has an economic component, but many people today simply don’t want large yards.

Acajack · #**4436** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 9:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Zebra crossing = crosswalk. No confusion. Although the British pronunciation of “zebra” ...

Isn't the British way closer to the original Portuguese?

Now, I won't change the way I say it, which I gather is the same way you do.

But I am wont to criticize people's pronunciations when they're actually closer to the original way of saying a word.

kwoldtimer · #**4437** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 9:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Isn't the British way closer to the original Portuguese?

Now, I won't change the way I say it, which I gather is the same way you do.

But I am wont to criticize people's pronunciations when they're actually closer to the original way of saying a word.

“ZEB-ra” vs “ZEE-bra. Wouldn’t Portuguese be closer to “Zay-bra”?

O-tacular · #**4438** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 10:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

The demographic in the Vaughn example demands detached homes vs row houses. Re the small lot size, isn’t that what’s happening with housing generally (in Ontario, at least)? It has an economic component, but many people today simply don’t want large yards.

In Calgary it was mandated by city council to reduce urban sprawl. In theory I supported the move, but the end result is much uglier suburbs with no room to plant trees and little privacy.

O-tacular · #**4439** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 10:20 PM**

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Hamberders

Jason Kenney is the Hamberder king!

HomeInMyShoes · #**4440** Posted **Oct 5, 2020, 7:31 PM**

Swift Current.

Look at the street interaction of this building.
350 Cheadle Street W

It's because they put the front entrance with the parking lot out back, except there's no sidewalks from North Railway to the front of the building on 3rd or 4th Avenue. There is a sidewalk on North Railway though.

3rd Avenue NW