[OSM-talk-be] Afkortingen/Abbréviations

[André Pirard]

On 2013-12-10 15:40, Marc Gemis wrote :
> I wonder whether there is a scenario that a non-native speaker sees
> the abbreviation and wants to look up this abbreviation in OSM, but
> cannot find it because only the full (expanded) name is in OSM.
> If so, we would need both names in OSM (or another DB).
I wonder if anybody minds so little, after all.
Ha! Computers?  Don't work ;-)

I came back to your message after reading this in the next one..
>> Si ... , je préférerais le Vaudrée ... .
> Il y a de bonnes entrecôtes au Waudrée ;-)
It's been months I'm spelling the restaurant name Vaudrée correctly and
he replies like that in the same message. And we never missed a single
rendezvous ;-)
> p.s. I used to live in a street named after a saint. In informal talks
> we always dropped the saint part.
Same for "Romeinse steenweg straat"=="rue de la Chaussée" -> "rue
Chaussée"=="straat met schoenen"!

Cheers,

André.


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