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

‪On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 07:40, 'caveman رجل الكهف' via vim_use
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> On Monday, September 21, 2020 7:01 PM, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.

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