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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago

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

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

it's a abbreviation of "Worcester", e.g. w.r.t to sauce

[–] thanksforallthefish 2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

That clears things up, cheers!