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I think we can give the ancient writers their credit. Ur was famous then, its name linked to the one city. If future generations read that someone contemporary
by HeckFeck 4y ago
I think we can give the ancient writers their credit. Ur was famous then, its name linked to the one city.
If future generations read that someone contemporary was born in an equivalently famous city like New York, they'll know where we mean.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoOn Wikipedia, there are nine places called New York outside of New York state. It's pretty easy to imagine someone getting confused if you told them you're from New York Texas now, I wouldn't expect someone millennia from now to know for sure.
- Beltalowda 4y agoPlus there might be confusion with the many Yorks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_(disambiguation) British settlers had zero imagination at all.
- _dain_ 4y ago>British settlers had zero imagination at all. Surely you must admit that eastern Australia is the spitting image of South Wales. There's hardly a more appropriate name.
- samatman 4y agoYes, but this would be like saying they're from "New York of the Yankees", since we know that Ur was Chaldean. Little room left for doubt.
- tsimionescu 4y agoIf you're coming from New York, Texas to some village in Romania and founding a religion here, they may well misunderstand which speicifc city you mean, and believe (and write down) that you're coming from the much more famous NYC.
- HeckFeck 4y ago> New York, Texas to some village in Romania and founding a religion here The worst thing is I could very well see this happening. Some gent starts getting visions, then a few weeks later he's entitled to time with everyone's wife. Then he fails a tax audit and the same day gets a vision to leave America and begin a global mission. Who said the US was struggling with exports? ;)