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Aug. 22nd, 2007 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a7sharp9Austin has both Colorado St. and Red River St., running parallel (but not next) to each other through the city center.
That is an interesting concept, come to think of it: in a dual- or multi-language community you can have whole ethnic neighborhoods organized in this way, creating an isomorphic structure, instead of assigning two names, one of them being translation of the other, to the same street (the way they do in Brussels, for example; I've spent several unpleasant minutes figuring out which of the two hotels named Astrid we should schlep to - on Place du Samedi or on Zaterdagplein).
Or conversely, allow for the cultural variation by making, say, Sam Houston St. to be at the same time "Avenida Santa Anna" for the Hispanic population; Lord Roberts for Botha, and George Stephenson Way/тупик бр. Черепановых.
That is an interesting concept, come to think of it: in a dual- or multi-language community you can have whole ethnic neighborhoods organized in this way, creating an isomorphic structure, instead of assigning two names, one of them being translation of the other, to the same street (the way they do in Brussels, for example; I've spent several unpleasant minutes figuring out which of the two hotels named Astrid we should schlep to - on Place du Samedi or on Zaterdagplein).
Or conversely, allow for the cultural variation by making, say, Sam Houston St. to be at the same time "Avenida Santa Anna" for the Hispanic population; Lord Roberts for Botha, and George Stephenson Way/тупик бр. Черепановых.