It'd be funny if it was considered rude to not refer to China in writing as 中华人民共和国. > PS: In Vancouver, they've been experimenting with a return to historic p

It'd be funny if it was considered rude to not refer to China in writing as 中华人民共和国. > PS: In Vancouver, they've been experimenting with a return to historic place names. For example, šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square (aka the art gallery plaza) For those who are curious about the "7", this is the ASCII-fication of the modifier letter called glottal stop (Unicode: ˀ): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop_(letter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop_(letter) used by the Squamish people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language The effort to revitalize the Squamish language has been ongoing since the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language#Use_and_language_revitalization_efforts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language#Use_and_lang... (Also, I'm not Canadian, but I found this character looking for some weird exception to "What is a letter?" when answering a StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52644458/235908 https://stackoverflow.com/a/52644458/235908)