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It is not the East Cut. It will never be the East Cut. That is Rincon, and the real-estate marketeers can bite me. Put another way, you can call things whateve
by _jal 8y ago
It is not the East Cut. It will never be the East Cut. That is Rincon, and the real-estate marketeers can bite me.
Put another way, you can call things whatever you want, but a marketing campaign does not obligate me to accept your silly branding nonsense.
- tyu100 8y agoRincon was almost certainly a real estate marketing name a hundred years ago.
- _jal 8y agoNo, it is named for Rincon Point, which took its name from Rincón, the Spanish word for 'corner'. Bored cynicism kinda requires the underlying reality support one's cynicism.
- kevinh 8y agoBut that name certainly wasn't the name the natives gave it before the Spanish expedition came around. Names change over time. Sometimes because of rebranding, sometimes because of hostile takeover of foreign land. Call it what you want, but I don't see the point of being concerned over the change.
- soylentcola 8y agoWhy did Constantinople get the works?
- codebje 8y agoDid you think of the mailman? I get postal mail for someone living a few blocks away because they're technically in another suburb with a slightly worse reputation, and their real estate agent sold them on the idea they were in my suburb instead. The post office, however, isn't paying attention to marketing or non-profit interest groups, it's paying attention to council zoning and regulation. So every so often, I get mail addressed to a street name similar to mine, but in the next suburb over. Names change over time, but when there's a central registry of names with a democratically founded process for managing those names, and the names are a public utility for locating things, it's best we don't just shit all over it and make up whatever we like because it suits us at the time.
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- PeterisP 8y agoNames are kind of a consensus thing - that place is(will be) called East Cut if and only if a sufficiently large part of the people who talk about the area call it East Cut. Conversely, if most people do start calling it East Cut, you will be obligated to do the same if you want people to understand what you mean, since if you'll say "Rincon" they'll (mis)understand it as an area that explicitly excludes territory which they now call otherwise.
- _jal 8y agoI take it you've never asked for directions in a small town? Of course as far as that reasoning takes you, you're correct. I'm pointing out that there is _not_ consensus. I also refer to the Emperor Norton Memorial Bridge, which is my own small contribution to building consensus on naming a different geographic feature.
- closeparen 8y agoI’ve found exactly zero people who recognize the name “Rincon Hill,” including Bay Area natives. I get stuck describing it as “east of SOMA, south of the Financial District, kinda near the Ferry Building and Salesforce Tower” before people recognize what I’m talking about. So I don’t mind the initiative to give it a single crisp name.