Calgary Openings, Closings, and Developments

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Originally Posted by edslunch

I think renaming to emphasize a broader scope, even if it already exists, is reasonable. “Fort Calgary” suggests to the uninitiated that it’s specifically and narrowly focused on the Fort and its history.

I think “The Confluence” is a poor choice. I get the multiple meanings of physical confluence of the rivers and the confluence of cultures - it’s clever - but the average person will have no clue what it is or is about.

I’m sightseeing in Halifax at the moment and Museum of Immigration tells me exactly what it’s about, Maritime Museum tells me exactly what it’s about. The Citadel covers a range of topics but is still calked the Citadel - there is no point hiding the dominating physical structures behind a more inclusive name.

Louvre, Getty, Glenbow, d’Orsay, etc. Not every museum is “The Museum of (subject)” nor does it really seem to matter if they are, but thankfully, this one has “Historic site & parkland” right in the name, so you know what you’re getting anyway!

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Originally Posted by Bigtime

I probably should have used green text, but figured my posting history would suggest I was just having some fun with the announcement. Little did I know the real firestorm was coming...

I could have done the same. The joke I was making was that if you ask any two people who use the term woke how they define it you’ll usually get two completely different answers.

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Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Fun fact: A confluence is the collective noun for a group of snails.

Another fun fact: I made that up.

Oddly enough, this afternoon, I was listening to a podcast that was talking about the collective nouns for groups of animals, and the collective noun for a group of snails is a "walk".

Apparently, the people who came up with a lot of collective nouns were sarcastic a-holes.