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

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 06:40:29AM +0000, 'caveman رجل الكهف' via vim_use wrote:
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> 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.
>
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