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HookShot posted:Also in Canada the drinking age in 11 of the 13 provinces and territories is 19, but they've put 18 there as the entirety of the country. edit: New page, so new politically loaded maps, related to the language/linguistics/force english on everyone from the last few pages.   The regression of rhotic accents within England over the last 50 years. The non-rhotic accent appears to have been something created by the educated upper classes in the late 18th century, and spread to coastal North American cities such as Boston, in addition to the upper class southern plantation owners of the 19th century. Over the past few decades rhotic accents have been slowly dying across Britain, being replaced with variants of the non-rhotic 'received pronunciation'. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jul 6, 2013 |
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Guavanaut posted:The non-rhotic accent appears to have been something created by the educated upper classes in the late 18th century Eh? It was born in the Southeast, where the English upper classes largely hail from, sure, but to say it was "created by" them is fundamentally silly.
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Ras Het posted:Eh? It was born in the Southeast, where the English upper classes largely hail from, sure, but to say it was "created by" them is fundamentally silly. They probably didn't create non-rhoticism out of whole cloth themselves, but the association between upper-classness (or at least being educated) and being unable to pronounce a tremulant R sound seems to have ingrained itself at some point.
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In reference to maternity leave, the USA needs to get its poo poo together. How is that not in the FMLA?
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Jul 6, 2013 05:14
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Idiot Kicker posted:In reference to maternity leave, the USA needs to get its poo poo together. How is that not in the FMLA? FMLA guarantees unpaid leave.
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I'd love to see a similar map to this, but in regards to safe drinking water from the tap. I still regret drinking from a water fountain in Trabzon once.
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Jul 6, 2013 06:24
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Badger of Basra posted:FMLA guarantees unpaid leave. Yeah it just prevents you from getting fired for taking family leave.
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Jul 6, 2013 06:57
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Ofaloaf posted:I'd love to see a similar map to this, but in regards to safe drinking water from the tap. I still regret drinking from a water fountain in Trabzon once. That has to deal with local bacteria more though. Back in the late 1800s, baseball players had a serious home field advantage because their immune systems were used to local bacteria, but traveling teams got sick. The water itself was safe to drink once you get used to the bacteria, but you get sick until acclimation.
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Jul 6, 2013 07:09
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Pyromancer posted:No, English is awful, spelling is too different from pronunciation(and all those th and ae sounds, ugh) Yea, coming from a phonetic language (romanian), english spelling is terrible and makes no sense whatsoever. French is even worse tho. For example I learned french for 11 years in school, and learned italian by watching cartoons on italian tv as a kid, and ended up better in italian than in french. One could say that's because italian is the closest language to romanian, but then again more than a third of romanian vocabulary is of french origin so it should be way easier to learn than it actually is. In Romania we used to have 2 years mandatory paid leave for new mothers, and employers weren't allowed to fire them. But about 2 years ago as part of austerity measures (thanks IMF and Germany!) the paid leave was reduced to only 1 year with protection from firing, and if you take 2 years they can fire you after you go back. That was just senseless and retarded, basically a big gently caress you to women (again, thanks Germany!).
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Normally I would agree that maternity leave is the last thing you want to start applying austerity to in a country experiencing a terminal demographic crisis, but two years does seem crazy. Are you serious about that? I think it's four months in Belgium. Edit: also, it was mandatory? You just mean that the employer had to allow it and not that the mother was forced to stay at home for two years, right? Because if it's the latter you can unironically thank Germany for making you get rid of an insanely sexist law. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Jul 6, 2013 |
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Jul 6, 2013 11:23
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Yes, please blame Germany for everything, instead of the troika that is the ECB, EU commission, and IMF.
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Jul 6, 2013 12:24
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Yes, but consider this: Hitler. Checkmate, Germanailures. 
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Ammat The Ankh posted:In addition to what Benito Hitlerstalin said, smoking is definitely banned on campuses in California. I don't know about other states, though, does every state have to have it on the books for it to qualify as a subnational-level law? The phrasing itself is pretty ambiguous. In schools? Yes, I'd say it's almost universal in the United States that smoking is banned within the confines of a school building. On school property? No, most schools (at least college level) have designated smoking areas away from buildings.
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Crasscrab posted:The phrasing itself is pretty ambiguous. In schools? Yes, I'd say it's almost universal in the United States that smoking is banned within the confines of a school building. On school property? No, most schools (at least college level) have designated smoking areas away from buildings. I don't know if the maps themselves were made by someone British, but since they were posted on the BBC website I expect they're using "school" in the British sense which is education establishments for children, and does not include colleges or universities.
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Reveilled posted:I don't know if the maps themselves were made by someone British, but since they were posted on the BBC website I expect they're using "school" in the British sense which is education establishments for children, and does not include colleges or universities. In that case it's pretty disingenuous since legal age for smoking is 18 and most if not all states enforce that. Anyway, in car news 
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Ofaloaf posted:I'd love to see a similar map to this, but in regards to safe drinking water from the tap. I still regret drinking from a water fountain in Trabzon once. You cannot really generalise that to countries though, I'm from an island where we don't have drinking tap water but the mainland and some other islands do.
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computer parts posted:In that case it's pretty disingenuous since legal age for smoking is 18 and most if not all states enforce that. The legend of this map is dumb as all hell.
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Mister Adequate posted:The legend of this map is dumb as all hell. It took me a second or two to understand it, but it's not difficult to follow. Having just purchased a car, I thought this was incredibly interesting. I had no idea that so many states purchased F-150s more than anything else. For what it's worth, my new car (an Escape) didn't make the list.  Edit: ∨∨∨∨ Turns out I'm an idiot and it actually did make the list. I'll learn to read one of these days. Hitch fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jul 6, 2013 |
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Jul 6, 2013 16:41
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computer parts posted:In that case it's pretty disingenuous since legal age for smoking is 18 and most if not all states enforce that. The way I would interpret that map would be "is it illegal for adults (teachers, janitors, admin staff) to smoke in school?" Chances are the map is still wrong though.
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Hitch posted:
It actually did in Ohio and Michigan. (this really needed to be like 2-3 maps)
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Hitch posted:It took me a second or two to understand it, but it's not difficult to follow. Having just purchased a car, I thought this was incredibly interesting. I had no idea that so many states purchased F-150s more than anything else. The Ford F-Series is the most sold vehicle in the country, followed closely by the Chevrolet Silverado. I'm amazed that the most purchased vehicle in Oklahoma is the Nissan Altima and not a truck.
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jb7 posted:I'm amazed that the most purchased vehicle in Oklahoma is the Nissan Altima and not a truck. That stood out to me too. I thought it was potentially because of a manufacturing facility there, but turns out Nissan only has manufacturing facilities in Smyrna, Tennessee; Canton, Mississippi; and Decherd, Tennessee -- in the U.S. at least.
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Jalopnik made a better version of the car sales map.
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Difference between the two maps: the first says most sold car in California is a Camry and the second says it is a Prius. My gut tells me it is the second that is accurate.
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computer parts posted:In that case it's pretty disingenuous since legal age for smoking is 18 and most if not all states enforce that. The northeast being some kind of Honda stronghold strikes me as really strange. Totally fits with my own personal experience, but I wonder why things worked out that way?
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Paradoxish posted:The northeast being some kind of Honda stronghold strikes me as really strange. Totally fits with my own personal experience, but I wonder why things worked out that way? Easier to park a CRV than an F-150.
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This map is interesting. What's the measurement? How long it takes to travel to certain areas? VVVV Thankyewverymuch. 
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prefect posted:This map is interesting. What's the measurement? How long it takes to travel to certain areas? The original post is here (that's also where I got the cars map). It's the distance from a major road or airport.
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3peat posted:then again more than a third of romanian vocabulary is of french origin Whoa, that's unexpected. Could you explain how French has had such a big impact on a language so distant from the French state?
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Squalid posted:Whoa, that's unexpected. Could you explain how French has had such a big impact on a language so distant from the French state? Romanian is a romance language, it's not too surprising they'd borrow many words from another Romance language.
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I am shocked and appalled that the Southeast, bastion of America, drives furriner Japanese cars moreso than red-blooded American cars. The Northeast and West Coast are to be expected, though, since they're not Real America and thus hate American products.
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Kurtofan posted:Romanian is a romance language, it's not too surprising they'd borrow many words from another Romance language. Yes but it would be reasonable to expect they wouldn't need to. e: Indeed they didn't need to. At least according to the Internet it was a conscious effort: quote:Many of these words served to replace Slavic words which were thought inappropriate by many Romanian patriots of that time. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jul 6, 2013 |
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Jul 6, 2013 22:01
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Ofaloaf posted:I am shocked and appalled that the Southeast, bastion of America, drives furriner Japanese cars moreso than red-blooded American cars. A lot of the Japanese cars are actually manufactured in the Southeast.
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prefect posted:Hey, at least it's better than "I like beating up fascists so much!" I'm glad someone is thinking of the poor fascists.
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Ofaloaf posted:I am shocked and appalled that the Southeast, bastion of America, drives furriner Japanese cars moreso than red-blooded American cars. The Camry is built in Georgetown, KY. Or at least a lot of them are.
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Regarde Aduck posted:I'm glad someone is thinking of the poor fascists. He's referring, I believe, to the D&D tendency to grandstand about "bash the fash" while, you know, never actually doing it.
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computer parts posted:In that case it's pretty disingenuous since legal age for smoking is 18 and most if not all states enforce that. I am genuinely shocked the #1 in Alaska isn't a Subaru. I guess it is "new" cars and not ones people drive and/or have a half dozen of rusting on their property, though.
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Benito Hitlerstalin posted:You've got to be working under some really hosed up definitions to end up with a map looking like this: I'd suppose it's counting the Human Rights Act as as close to a constitutional document as you can get (along with some other important legislation)? 
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