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Re: Ambiguous names

From Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english
Subject Re: Ambiguous names
Date 2026-03-14 07:00 +0000
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Le 12/03/2026 à 11:38, Blueshirt a écrit :
> Hibou wrote:
>>
>> 'Barcelona fan 'gutted' at missing Newcastle game after going
>> to wrong St James' Park' -
>>
> <https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/11/barcelona-fan-w
> rong-st-james-park-misses-newcastle-game-exeter> :
>>
>> "Supporter ended up in Exeter, 366 miles away [...] 'My guess
>> is he’d put St James Park in his phone and then just followed
>> the directions from there' [said Exeter's supporter experience
>> officer]."
> 
> I dunno, the grounds have the same name but Exeter doesn't sound
> anything like Newcastle... if you can use Google Maps you'd
> surely see Exeter or Exeter City FC somewhere if that was where
> it was directing you.


That's true, but using a satnav sends parts of the brain to sleep:

"'When we have technology telling us which way to go, however, these 
parts of the brain simply don't respond to the street network. In that 
sense our brain has switched off its interest in the streets around us'" -
<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2017/mar/satnavs-switch-parts-brain>

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  Re: Ambiguous names "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> - 2026-03-12 11:38 +0000
    Re: Ambiguous names Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-03-14 07:00 +0000
      Re: Ambiguous names lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2026-03-14 22:22 -0600
        Re: Ambiguous names Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-03-15 01:09 -0700
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            Re: Ambiguous names Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-03-15 20:51 -0700
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          Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-15 13:13 +0100
            Re: Ambiguous names Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-03-15 13:41 +0000
              Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-15 20:53 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-03-15 21:53 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-15 23:34 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-03-15 22:40 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-16 12:00 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-03-16 15:13 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-16 21:08 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-03-16 22:28 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2026-03-15 17:38 -0600
                Re: Ambiguous names snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-03-16 00:14 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-16 12:00 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-03-17 09:44 +1100
                Re: Ambiguous names snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-03-16 23:00 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-03-17 08:55 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-17 11:36 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-03-17 11:12 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-03-17 11:53 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names Janet <nobody@home.com> - 2026-03-17 13:01 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-17 21:21 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-17 21:21 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-03-16 07:40 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2026-03-16 10:50 -0600
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-16 22:24 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-03-17 01:51 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-03-17 06:29 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-17 21:21 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-03-18 09:52 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-17 21:21 +0100
                Re: Ambiguous names Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-03-17 08:18 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-03-17 19:29 +0000
                Re: Ambiguous names Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-03-18 10:13 +1100
                Re: Ambiguous names Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-03-18 06:32 +0000
        Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-15 11:09 +0100
        Re: Ambiguous names Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-03-15 20:16 +0000
  Re: Ambiguous names Charles Hope <clh@candehope.me.uk> - 2026-03-12 12:30 +0000
  Re: Ambiguous names nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-03-12 14:16 +0100

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