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frankPodmore@slrpnk.netM to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago

Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes

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Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes

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frankPodmore@slrpnk.netM to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago
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The mocked and derided town is a rare success story of national planning.
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    w.r.t building new towns, I once spent an embarrassingly long time looking at this map and wondering why no town exists between the vast gap between Preston and Newcastle.

    Then I realised that’s the Yorkshire Dales. There’s a whole damn forest with mountains there.

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      Build houses on the mountain peaks and treehouses in the forests, all linked together with a series of zip wires. I see no downsides to my plan.

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        I mean you joke, but the entire south of Germany is a bunch of (quote unquote) “towns” tenuously linked together through the mountaineous black forest, with broken train lines and excellent roads. They make it work by convincing themselves that a weekend cycle up a mountain with bouts of skiing in winter is what every person should do. And I agree.

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        If this isn’t the next Far Cry game, then Ubisoft deserves to go bankrupt.

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      w.r.t?

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        it’s a abbreviation of “Worcester”, e.g. w.r.t to sauce

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          That clears things up, cheers!

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          Thats an unusual definition. WRT has long meant “with regards to” or “with respect to”

          https://www.oed.com/dictionary/wrt_prep?tl=true

          https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/WRT

          https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_regard_to

          https://english-grammar-lessons.com/wrt-meaning/

          I can’t quickly find an authoritative source other than OED which is paywalled. But in short it’s an abbreviation that dates back to the 50s

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