MilesbeforeIsleep Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) Who knows the proper term for an architectural street sign, such as this? And, what is the proper term describing the type of perspective seen in the sign (and building) here? Knowing the answers to these questions will help me sleep at night--I've been calling the 2nd "diminishing perspective"--which I just made up. Have looked at architectural and drawing terminology terms and found the answer to neither. Grateful for your help. --Michael Edited June 16, 2021 by MilesbeforeIsleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 For the second...Maybe use "Vanishing Point" Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesbeforeIsleep Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 6 hours ago, Phil Crean said: For the second...Maybe use "Vanishing Point" Phil Thanks, Phil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesbeforeIsleep Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 6 hours ago, David Pimborough said: The first is a monumental sign or monument sign The second you have your answer Thanks, David. Monument sign it will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 9 minutes ago, David Pimborough said: You should add "monumental sign" too Monumental as in BIG. Extremely large. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Gigantic . . . enormous . . . and so on. 🤪 I like monumental sign. It reads like a search term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 18 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: Gigantic . . . enormous . . . and so on. 🤪 I like monumental sign. It reads like a search term. which sadly has not been used once in a year on AoA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Ouch, Jean-François Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesbeforeIsleep Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 4 hours ago, David Pimborough said: Or humungous 😆 Yeah. "monumental" is an adjective which I hear as meaning 'really big'. But I understand the other usage and will include both. Thanks, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 On 16/06/2021 at 02:10, MilesbeforeIsleep said: Who knows the proper term for an architectural street sign, such as this? And, what is the proper term describing the type of perspective seen in the sign (and building) here? Knowing the answers to these questions will help me sleep at night--I've been calling the 2nd "diminishing perspective"--which I just made up. Have looked at architectural and drawing terminology terms and found the answer to neither. Grateful for your help. --Michael Is the second one called a three quarter view? John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 36 minutes ago, Stokie said: Is the second one called a three quarter view? John. I wonder if we are all overthinking it? These very precise descriptions are probably no longer used by young, underpaid, picture editors searching for photos. We probably need to start using more 'street' type descriptions to be in with a chance of getting minted, innit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelbennett Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) I usually hear the word monumental in conjunction with a mistake or error. EG it was a monumental error. Or more likely, it was a monumental cock up. Edited June 18, 2021 by noelbennett spelling error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) 53 minutes ago, noelbennett said: I usually hear the word monumental in conjunction with a mistake or error. EG it was a monumental error. Or more likely, it was a monumental cock up. No doubt because there have so many monumental mistakes in recent times. Look no further than how badly the pandemic has been managed in so many places one does not even need to be specific. But it can be positive - just think of ................. eh oh forget it, the brain fog is bad today.....😎 AH just remembered one - the vaccination programme - that was a monumentally good decision by the UK government to get that in place early. Edited June 18, 2021 by MDM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I'm not saying anything. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Wrong - you just did. 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 There was a pretty monumental mistake in the New Statesman online today. A small piece about the fact that Juneteenth has been made a federal holiday here... they say it commemorates June 19 1965, where (perhaps they mean when) news of the of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the people of Galveston, Texas, freeing slaves in the last rebelling state. Of course, not quite the right century. I figure it was a young person's error. 1965 sounded like a very long time ago. Paulette 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) 28 minutes ago, NYCat said: There was a pretty monumental mistake in the New Statesman online today. A small piece about the fact that Juneteenth has been made a federal holiday here... they say it commemorates June 19 1965, where (perhaps they mean when) news of the of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the people of Galveston, Texas, freeing slaves in the last rebelling state. Of course, not quite the right century. I figure it was a young person's error. 1965 sounded like a very long time ago. Paulette A young person having a senior moment as they call it? Ageist any way you look at it although hopefully not ageism of the offensive kind. Edited June 18, 2021 by MDM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 (edited) On 18/06/2021 at 17:56, NYCat said: June 19 1965, where (perhaps they mean when) news of the of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the people of Galveston, Texas, Well some do say Texas is a bit backward........perhaps they didn't learn to read until 1965........... Edited June 20, 2021 by spacecadet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 2 hours ago, spacecadet said: Well some do say Texas is a bit backward........perhaps they didn't learn to read until 1965........... Not that funny, actually, since during the vile time of slavery slaves were not allowed to learn to read. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, NYCat said: Not that funny, actually, since during the vile time of slavery slaves were not allowed to learn to read. Paulette Thankyou for the history lesson but I'm sure you know that the UK abolished slavery 60 years before that. You wrote "news of the of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the people of Galveston" at a time when slaves were not considered quite human surely? I think we are allowed to have a giggle about the typographical error and not be po-faced about the subject. Edited June 21, 2021 by spacecadet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Sorry, but making fun of Texans didn't strike me as very funny. Still doesn't. Not my kind of humor (humour). Paulette 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizBrown Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 9 hours ago, spacecadet said: the UK abolished slavery 60 years before that. I didn't find out about Somerset v. Stewart until around 2005 or so -- the UK was ahead of the US on abolition and the Southern Slave owning colonies weren't as concerned about taxes as not being able to take their slaves to London with them without the court ruling the formerly enslaved people to be free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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