Re: [Tagging] Unofficial name change of "Lake Calhoun" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017-06-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote: > However, I don't think you should use the name_1 tag. There has been > endless discussion on this list about the uses of tags having numerical > suffixes either with underscores or colons, and I believe that

Re: [Tagging] Unofficial name change of "Lake Calhoun" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017-06-08 Thread Marc Gemis
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: > However, I don't think you should use the name_1 tag. There has been endless > discussion on this list about the uses of tags having numerical suffixes > either with underscores or colons, and I believe that notation

Re: [Tagging] Unofficial name change of "Lake Calhoun" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017-06-08 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Hi I live in Minneapolis and am excited for this change. For Clifford and whoever else is interested, here's an article that has the Dakota pronunciation for Bde Maka Ska and some other area lakes: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/10/14/bdemakaska-lake-calhoun Locally there's been an increasing

Re: [Tagging] Unofficial name change of "Lake Calhoun" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017-06-08 Thread Dave Swarthout
Names of things are changing ll the time. Here in Alaska, Barrow has been renamed to Utqiagvik, for example. However, I don't think you should use the name_1 tag. There has been endless discussion on this list about the uses of tags having numerical suffixes either with underscores or colons, and

Re: [Tagging] Unofficial name change of "Lake Calhoun" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017-06-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Tom Hardy wrote: > Huh. That one flew right by me. Noted. Now I have to learn to pronounce > it. Me too. Next time I'm in Minneapolis I don't want to see like a tourist and pronounce it incorrectly. FYI - We "renamed" our county because

Re: [Tagging] Unofficial name change of "Lake Calhoun" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017-06-08 Thread Tom Hardy
On Thursday, 8 June 2017 18:23:50 CDT Clifford Snow wrote: > According to Wikipedia [1], the city can not change the name. But since > they did put up new signage, according to the article, I agree that > name=Bde Maka Ska is appropriate. I would use the name_1=Lake Calhoun > instead of name:en.

Re: [Tagging] Unofficial name change of "Lake Calhoun" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017-06-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Tom Hardy wrote: > Lake Calhoun is the subject > of > local discussion due to racist associations of the word "Calhoun". I know > a > name change has been promoted, but I have no further details. >

[Tagging] Unofficial name change of "Lake Calhoun" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017-06-08 Thread Tom Hardy
Lake Calhoun is the subject of local discussion due to racist associations of the word "Calhoun". I know a name change has been promoted, but I have no further details. The name was recently changed to name=Bde Maka Ska, with name:dak=Mde Maka Ska,