[escapefromboston]

Native language for east Cambridge ? must be in Portuguese

[wildcard_redneck]

Waste of money.

[Prince of Space]

How many tribal members live in MA these days? What’s the point of adding signs if nobody can understand them? And does MA really have nothing else to spend taxpayers’ dollars on?

[Paladin2]

That Haaqahhhvarrrd Gay woman is a witch and need to be historically Mass. appropriately treated.

[broken_clock]

Native like, “paaahk the caaah heeeah”?

[rfp1234]

What kind of script will they use for the native language?
Surely not the roman alphabet, that would be appropriation.

[rlmorel]

I completely didn’t get what they were driving at. I thought the signs would say, if translated into “Massachusetts Language”, something like:

“Entering Cambridge”

“Empty your wallet here and grovel because you are white”

[bgill]

She’s right. All 7,139 languages of the world should be on every street sign. English should be demoted down to about #4683 down the pole.

[freeandfreezing]

How does translating the street signs of 1st through 8th street in East Cambridge have anything to do with Native Americans who lived in that area in the past? They didn't have those streets, and they didn't name paths by using numbers.

This sounds more like maintaining a great historical tradition of Cambridge - somebody's cousin runs a sign making company and they need money for their daughter's college next year. So the city definitely needs to spend $20,000 on signs nobody can read.

The real history lesson would be the back story behind who gets the money, and why the signs aren't in a language like Italian, Portuguese, or the language of one of the many groups of people who actually made that neighborhood.

[Mark17]

I thought they would use Arabic.

[x]

Sage Carbone?

America has a long tradition of Italian Indians going back to Frank deKova and Iron Eyes Cody.

When they said "street signs," I thought they mean signs with the names of streets on them.

STOP/AQUEESH is bound to cause confusion and accidents.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I am originally from the US Southwest yet I have never seen an “ALTO” stop sign anywhere except in Mexico.

[heartwood]

VIRTUE
SIGNALLERS
USE
HIGHBEAMS

[posterchild]

What languages does the Center for Marxist Studies have on their sign? (are they still in Central Square?)

[Chad C. Mulligan]

The crazy continues. Yet another reason to be glad I fled Cambridge in 1977, never to return.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Now them injuns won’t be speeding and running stop signs.

[Muhammy]

translate this

FUJB and
Jill the shill dr.

[Songcraft]

(Ooops!!!)

[Albion Wilde]

Carbone is a member of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe

Didn't know the tribe let in Italians.

[Bullish]

Hey Boston, just give up on this thing called America then if it causes you so much grief because of street names.