H/\LIF/\X is a logo of the Halifax Regional Municipality
Halifax.ca copyright holder is the Halifax Regional Municipality
H/\LIF/\X translates to HLLIFLX
Halifax Regional Municipaly
-is not a place
-is not Halifax Nova Scotia
is not an incorporated city
its a “Regional Municipality
—Tangier Resident
This article appears in Jul 30 – Aug 5, 2015.
Halifax resident. HALIFAX.
New York City = Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island.
Greater Toronto Area = City of Toronto, York, Peel, Durham, Halton
Halifax Regional Municipality = Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford Sackville
Get over it.
If you weren’t part of or close to Halifax, nobody would even go to or know where Tan-wherever-the-fuck is.
Yes, where is it? In Halifax?
AN ANALYTICAL PROPOSITION
“Halifax Regional Municipality is not a place, its (sic) a Regional Municipality.”
This is what is called an analytical proposition, one in which the “definiendum,” that which is to be defined (Halifax Regional Municipality) is identical with the “definiens,” the definition itself (a Regional Municipality). In other words, the assertion conforms to Aristotle’s First Law of Logic, that of Identity: “A is A” which asserts that A is identical with itself.
Put differently, Halifax Regional Municipality is a Regional Municipality, and is not another thing.
Thank you.
A better analogy for HRM than the Greater Toronto Area above (which isn’t all “Toronto”) would be the City of Toronto.
City of Toronto = Toronto, York, North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough. All were their own cities until 1998. Now they are not. When you go to them, the signs say “Toronto,” unless it’s an old sign that no one has bothered to replace yet. When the signs are replaced, guess what city’s name goes up? That’s right, Toronto, because they’re in Toronto.
Of course they all still have distinct identities, but as areas within the city, not as self-governing entities in their own right.
Some people still whine about it, but not at the level of Dartmouthians.
It took me several months, but I FINALLY deciphered the new Halifax Logo.
For the longest time, I had been thinking that the visual reference was something to do with electrical tape–perhaps a nod to all the new jobs being promised at a new ship building enterprise that is “starting here.”
But then I realized that it wasn’t that at all–the inverted V’s are actually the Lamda symbol in the Greek alphabet. The correct translation is, indeed, as pointed out above, “HLLIFLX.”
Difficult to pronounce, yes, but I now believe it to be a nod to the city’s long-established, and much respected, Greek community, and also their many very yummy foods–including, of course, the DONAIR.
So there you have it: the new logo is a tribute to the Donair.
“HLLIFLX: City of Donairs.” Well, at least that’s something.
You can’t get a good donair outside of Halifax…!
Fair point, Pigeon! But my sentiment still stands; get over it. You can still call it Dartmouth, the same as people in Toronto can still call it Etobicoke or people in New York can still call it Queens (and in countless other places).
There are really nice parts of Dartmouth that I love but this idea that people on the Halifax side think they’re too good and we’re trying to invade your culture is full on retarded. The only people you ever hear talking smack (outside of this forum) are Dartmouthians about Haligonians. Haligonians do not care, or even think about, Dartmouth that often. Honestly, I grew up in Dartmouth and have lived there for many years, from the North End to Portland Estates. Lots of fond memories and places that I still visit and really enjoy. It’s the Dartmouth people who are the ones who have some complex where they think they’re special and unique because of where they bought/rent their home and go on and on about the people in Halifax.
Welcome to the city of Halifax, bitches. Deal with it.
So you lived for many years in the Portland Projects? I bet it was something when the sun went down.