Re: CHAT: postcodes

bnathyuw wrote:
> secondly ( desperately trying to bring this back
> to conlanging, or at least conculturing ), has
anyone
> addressed this issue in any of their concultures ?
In the World, I've worked out the postal system for
the city-state of Auntimoany. This particular city is
located by the sea, built up about 15 feet or so off
the original ground level, and is crammed between the
water and a line of cliffs, there being usually no
more than 80 to 100 yards between them. There is one
main road roughly following the coastline and dividing
the city into east and west. The streets themselves,
and the numerous canals, are called "wharves", as each
ends in a wharf out in the harbour. The wharves are
all numbered (not necessarily consecutively, though)
and only a few have actual names. Houses and suchlike
are assigned a number within their wharves (and once
again, there are not necessarily in order); and the
whole city is divided into large postal districts.

There are, as of now, eight such districts: Auntimoany
Northe and Auntimoany Southe 1 through 7. Some typical
address are:

The Baanck of Auntimoany
Towwergate,
Wharff 6,
Auntimoany, N.

Ye Layde of Bauthe
Makeshift Mannoure
 at St. Oleo hys High Mucklekirk,
Auntimoanium, Northe.

Thee Oaken Oare Inne
Whaarf 192,
 Docks at Parçivalle Pointe,
Auntimoany, S. 3.

Ye Praunçyng Ponye
Whaarfe 167,
Auntimoany, S., 2.

Auntimoany North consists of "Cyngysgate", "Makeshift
Mannoure" and wharves 1 through 25. South 1 consists
of wharves 26 through 113, and sports "Crauftigh
Scquayre". South 2 consists of wharves 114 through
183. South 3 consists of wharves 184 through 253 and
sports the "Docks at Parcyfal Pointe". South 4
consists of wharves 254 through 281. Southe 5 consists
of wharves 282 through 368. South 6 consists of
wharves 369 through 506 and sports "Oldedockes".
Lastly, South 7 consists of wharves 507 through
Lastdocke (wharf 533), at Newsouthwalle in Warrewycce.

For such a skinny city, its streets, canals, main road
and underwharves (a whole warren of underground
streets) present a system of twisted alleys mostly and
culdesacs. Many streets pass through buildings or
courtyards; some end in a culdesac and pick up again a
few yards away, but due to inconvenient walls and
buildings you'd have to walk another half hour to get
round to it. Gates are numerous, especially when the
road opens into a plaza or a neighbourhood.

Post offices are ubiquitious, due to the mercantile
nature of the city and its position as a bottleneck of
international trade and cultural diffusion.

Padraic.


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