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I wrote a thesis on place name ambiguity [1], so not surprised. There are tons of people flying to the wrong place with the same name all the time - they only t
by jll29 6y ago
I wrote a thesis on place name ambiguity [1], so not surprised. There are tons of people flying to the wrong place with the same name all the time - they only told me when I mentioned my thesis topic.
There's even a book about a guy who visited half of the places called 'Aberdeen' on earth, which took 10 years.
[1] J. Leidner (2007) Toponym resolution in Text
- chrisseaton 6y agoYou think the plane flew to the wrong place?
- detaro 6y agoprobably wanted to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270232 instead
- chrisseaton 6y agoHow can you accidentally comment on the wrong article?
- geocrasher 6y agoWell to be fair, commenting on the wrong article with a comment about going to the wrong place kind of proves the point.
- stevehawk 6y agoopen several articles up in multiple tabs.. accidentally click the wrong tab when they go back to comment?
- interestica 6y agoThis is interesting. It makes me think of the way we cluster thematically-related placenames in cities. It's well intentioned, but I think people can mentally store place names based on other categorical groupings (eg, we might remember a street had something to do with the sun- only to find all the area streets have some relation). I'd love to read more on your thesis!