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

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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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