Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

On 9/22/20 4:15 AM, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote:
> ‪On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 07:40, 'caveman رجل الكهف' via vim_use
> <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:‬
>>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On Monday, September 21, 2020 7:01 PM, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of
>>> Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the
>>> "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the state's name must be written
>>> «Arkansas's» and not «Arkansas'». (I'm using French quotes to
>>> emphasize the difference with the apostrophe).
>>
>> in case we have some arkansas officials here in
>> the list, i'd like to share a suggestion for free,
>> tax exempt:
>>
>> i think the simplest solution is to actually
>> rename the state into "Arkansa". this way they
>> can the apostrophe at will however they please,
>> like "Arkansa's".
>>
>>
>> even better, rename it to just "Arkan".
>>
>>
>> information theoretically there are like 50 states
>> right? so technically we just need:
>>
>> ceil(log2(50)) = 6 bits only
>>
>> so clearly "Arkansas", being 64 bits is way an
>> over kill.
>>
>> while at it, let's also rename massachusetts, and
>> other wrong names.
>
> As we've all gone in full off-topic mode, isn't it the case in the US
> of A that individual states can also determine their own official
> language? I must have read somewhere that one state (which ?) ruled
> that its own language should be "American" and not "English", in which
> case they are free to make up their own spelling rules.
>
> The real issue here is how one would import the Arkansas's spell
> checker into Vim.
>

The states have a variety of official languages, but none is "American".
From Wikipedia:

> 32 states of the United States, in some cases as part of what has been
> called the English-only movement, have adopted legislation granting
> official status to English. Out of 50 states, 30 have established
> English as the only[citation needed] official language, while Hawaii
> recognizes both English and Hawaiian as official, and Alaska has made
> some 20 native languages official, along with English; for example,
> Alaska provides voting information in English, Iñupiaq, Central
> Yup'ik, Gwich'in, Siberian Yupik, Koyukon, and Tagalog.

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