Talk:Karl Johans gate

Street
> gate ==

Street? Why not Way, Avenue, Boulevard? Even Road? How silly to call it Street, with a capital S, no less. Could just as well have gone all the way and used an apostrophe in Johan's.

Support for change, but please get it right!

I suspect the formally correct name is Karl Johansgate rather than Karl Johans gate, ikkje? - Hordaland (talk) 21:52, 22 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Linguistically, I think you are correct, but all the street signs apply __meco (talk) 09:28, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The map in the back of my old NAF book uses Karl Johansgate. Other maps?  - Hordaland (talk) 15:50, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: translation
This image shows that the street name is not translated in an English context. And oh, it also shows the three word division. Geschichte (talk) 22:07, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I would not use a Norwegian public street sign or a sign such as the one provided here as evidence of anything. These signs are notorious in their use of variant spellings, including misspellings. __meco (talk) 06:41, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Variants do happen, but they are usually fixed. Any examples otherwise? Geschichte (talk) 12:12, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Look at page 55 (57 in pdf), under heading 5.12 of the officially translated 2008 Municipal Master Plan (Kommuneplan 2008), made by the Municipality of Oslo. They use the following names on these areas:
 * Royal Palace
 * Karl Johans gate
 * City Hall
 * Akershus Fortress
 * “Kvadraturen”
 * Hammersborg
 * Gamlebyen
 * Akerselva
 * ...so I also believe it should be Karl Johans gate, like Geschichte does. lil2mas (talk) 16:37, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

regarding the fountain picture
that fountain is spesial in that it is remodelled from time to time. it should therefore have 2 pictures: one for each design. do not ask me why they are doing it as i do not know. the other version is similar to the fountain in fountain speakers.84.213.45.196 (talk) 14:05, 18 July 2015 (UTC)