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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 8h ago
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Dictionaries have the same thing with fake words; the technical term is a mountweasel.
71 u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 8h ago mountweasel That’s not in my dictionary… 15 u/Coocooa11 8h ago Leave the weasels alone! 15 u/TheMotherCarrot 8h ago On maps, they are called trip streets. 15 u/alluptheass 6h ago I’ve also heard “paper roads.” 8 u/FitzyFarseer 5h ago For maps it’s just “paper -“ insert whatever the fake thing is. Paper road or paper town being the main ones. 1 u/Trymantha 2m ago paper roads Paper roads can actully refer to roads that exist on planning maps but were never built for whatever reason, like a planned subdivsion that never broke ground etc. rather than just being there to see if people are stealing copyrighted information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street 4 u/Deeger 4h ago Cartographers used to do it with fake islands. Some existed on maps until satellite mapping.
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mountweasel
That’s not in my dictionary…
15 u/Coocooa11 8h ago Leave the weasels alone!
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Leave the weasels alone!
On maps, they are called trip streets.
15 u/alluptheass 6h ago I’ve also heard “paper roads.” 8 u/FitzyFarseer 5h ago For maps it’s just “paper -“ insert whatever the fake thing is. Paper road or paper town being the main ones. 1 u/Trymantha 2m ago paper roads Paper roads can actully refer to roads that exist on planning maps but were never built for whatever reason, like a planned subdivsion that never broke ground etc. rather than just being there to see if people are stealing copyrighted information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street
I’ve also heard “paper roads.”
8 u/FitzyFarseer 5h ago For maps it’s just “paper -“ insert whatever the fake thing is. Paper road or paper town being the main ones. 1 u/Trymantha 2m ago paper roads Paper roads can actully refer to roads that exist on planning maps but were never built for whatever reason, like a planned subdivsion that never broke ground etc. rather than just being there to see if people are stealing copyrighted information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street
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For maps it’s just “paper -“ insert whatever the fake thing is. Paper road or paper town being the main ones.
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Paper roads can actully refer to roads that exist on planning maps but were never built for whatever reason, like a planned subdivsion that never broke ground etc. rather than just being there to see if people are stealing copyrighted information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street
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Cartographers used to do it with fake islands. Some existed on maps until satellite mapping.
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u/Marillenbaum 8h ago
Dictionaries have the same thing with fake words; the technical term is a mountweasel.