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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Pff, to have a median of 1.5 the number of single-language speakers has to be exactly equal to the multilingual population. Unlikely! quote:How many languages Europeans speak From the article.
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What's going on in Portugal? I assume the number for the Netherlands is so high because the Dutch language is more or less German, but with a throat infection inspired pronunciation. Shouldn't Portuguese people be able to understand Spanish?
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Nov 18, 2014 01:32
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waitwhatno posted:What's going on in Portugal? They are stupid!
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Nov 18, 2014 01:38
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Kennel posted:They are stupid! It all makes sense now.
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Nov 18, 2014 01:45
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waitwhatno posted:What's going on in Portugal? I assume the number for the Netherlands is so high because the Dutch language is more or less German, but with a throat infection inspired pronunciation. Shouldn't Portuguese people be able to understand Spanish? That's exactly why we don't learn it! That said, the data seems very weird, since there has been a conscious effort to improve our speaking, and basically everyone under 30 is decently fluent in english - the fact we don't dub our tv shows alone should account for a marked difference to the spaniards!
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Nov 18, 2014 01:55
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Rumda posted:I think its more the lasting effect of the Russian Empire than solely the shadow of the German Except that the German part didn't have very many Poles when it was part of Germany. The ancestors of most of the people living there now would have been from the Russian empire as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_population_transfers_%281944%E2%80%9346%29  Poles were kicked out of the pink part and resettled in the yellow part, and the Germans who lived in the yellow part were sent back to Germany.
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Nov 18, 2014 01:57
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karl fungus posted:3peat, you're like the only Romanian goon I've seen around. Is there anything interesting about Braila, politically-loaded or not? That's where my Romanian half comes from. It's one of those small irrelevant romanian towns that I've never been to.. Well, it's really close to Galati and their maritime university/shipyards, and Braila also has it's own very modern shipyard (owned by STX), so many people from there work as shipyard engineers/ship designers/workers, or as naval officers (I work in the shipping industry and have colleagues from there) Other than that, idk
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Nov 18, 2014 02:19
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Reveilled posted:From the article. That's not a drat median
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Nov 18, 2014 02:30
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Tree Goat posted:That's not a drat median Yeah, thats closer to mean rounded to the nearest half.
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Nov 18, 2014 04:34
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Spazzle posted:Yeah, thats closer to mean rounded to the nearest half. It's "median unless the median would be sufficiently/arbitrarily close to the next integer, in which case add a .5 to indicate this" A rounded mean would make more sense.
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Nov 18, 2014 04:40
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It's not a map as such, but I still thought it was funny. "9 year old girl shows with a single answer how outdated our school system is"  Let me translate that for you. quote:Holiday destination The girl's new answer is a badly spelled 'buienradar', a very popular Dutch site showing zoomable cloud/rain/lightning maps, including rain cloud movement predictions.
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Nov 18, 2014 09:47
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She prefers this adfilled monstrosity: over maps like this: 
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Nov 18, 2014 09:57
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IndustrialApe posted:She prefers this adfilled monstrosity: That 9 year old girl will never be accepted as a goon.
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Nov 18, 2014 10:07
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I am pretty sure that she will not be accepted anywhere on the internet if the responses to women on the web are any indication. Joking aside: In the past few years, the dutch discussion about education has been focused on making education more up-to-date. So far it means that people buy expensive doodads and heavily advertised commercial apps to attract parents to their schools. So yeah, I get kinda testy when kid answers the question with a commercial website filled with ads and the response is "look how out of date education is".
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Nov 18, 2014 10:17
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waitwhatno posted:What's going on in Portugal? I assume the number for the Netherlands is so high because the Dutch language is more or less German, but with a throat infection inspired pronunciation. Shouldn't Portuguese people be able to understand Spanish? When Portuguese say they can speak Spanish they mean they fill every other word with L's/N's and call it Spanish. When Portuguese say they can understand Spanish, they usually mean TV Spanish, where it's usually spoken slowly and more deliberatley. You really need a trained ear and some actual basic knowledge of how the language works to get anywhere, and most folk simply don't, yet everyone thinks if you know one you know the other, including Portuguese/Spanish speakers. Also Russian and similar slavic languages sound a lot more like Portuguese than Spanish does, even though it's world aparts. Romenian too I heard.
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Electronico6 posted:
Going to be useful when Putin rolls out the Eurasian Union, from Lisbon to Vladivostok 
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Nov 18, 2014 11:05
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IndustrialApe posted:She prefers this adfilled monstrosity: Who the hell visits that site without adblock?
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Kurtofan posted:Going to be useful when Putin rolls out the Eurasian Union, from Lisbon to Vladivostok Get used to the Shanghai Economic Organisation first. Moscow to Peking, with application requests from Delhi and Islamabad.
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Nov 18, 2014 13:03
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Carbon dioxide posted:Who the hell visits that site without adblock? Plenty of people in my experience, doesn't matter how old, what education level or even if they're computer literate.
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IndustrialApe posted:Plenty of people in my experience, doesn't matter how old, what education level or even if they're computer literate. Yea people don't get that AdBlock is a thing. My fiancee isn't the most tech savvy but she knows her way around a computer (enough to not use IE/Safari), and she didn't have AdBlock installed. When I used her computer it was like navigating a post apocalyptic hell scape except instead of rape gangs it was endless pop ups. Some people just think that's how thr internet is.
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wdarkk posted:Just a warning that guy's got some AUTISM http://www.globalautismcollaboration.com has many links plus a large (and excellent) section of essays and advice by autistic author Temple Grandin. Guide to Improving Gastrointestinal Symptoms among Children with Autism Spectrum: https://www.delimmune.com/research/improvements-in-gastrointestinal-symptoms-among-children-with-autism/ Help with Behavioral Issues & Learning Life Skills: https://www.autism-help.org/behavioral-issues-autism-asperger.htm Health Issues Specific to Autism: https://www.autismhelp.info/health/health-issues-specific-to-autism/categories,id,466,1-1.aspx A Guide to Keeping Your Children with Autism Safe: safesoundfamily.com/p/autism-safety/
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Rambling Robot posted:AUTISM This should be stickied on every forum, as should the suicide hotline.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:That 9 year old girl will never be accepted as a goon. No AdBlock? Lmao I bet she uses Internet Explorer 6 too, get out n00b I use an app for the local weather, making me simultaneously modern and an old person (for caring about the weather)
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Phlegmish posted:No AdBlock? Lmao I bet she uses Internet Explorer 6 too, get out n00b I use a special antenna to pick up NOAA satellite downlinks directly  I'm a terrible nerd aren't I
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Phlegmish posted:No AdBlock? Lmao I bet she uses Internet Explorer 6 too, get out n00b IE6 would be older than a 9 year old.
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Wait... aren't those temperatures too low?
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Nov 18, 2014 17:58
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Its only once in a year temperatures need to get that low. Hardly the norm though.
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Nov 18, 2014 18:06
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Count Roland posted:Its only once in a year temperatures need to get that low. Hardly the norm though.
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Nov 18, 2014 18:15
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I like how you can basically see the North Atlantic stream in that map.
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Because of the gulf stream, its oblong shape and northerly latitude (and a bunch of other reasons I'm to dumb to know anything about) Sweden sometimes experiences meteorological summer and winter at the same time. This I learned a few months ago. I am guessing the same is true for Norway. e: That is to say that summer, autumn and winter sometimes occur simultaneously – albeit in different parts of the country. Summer in the south, autumn in the middle and winter in the far north. Cake Smashing Boob fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Benito Hitlerstalin posted:Because of the gulf stream, its oblong shape and northerly latitude (and a bunch of other reasons I'm to dumb to know anything about) Sweden sometimes experiences meteorological summer and winter at the same time.
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Nov 18, 2014 19:11
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Les Liancourts sont français.
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Meanwhile, real-life Serbia actually gave up its coastline.  Where was Tupac's rap magic??
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Here's an ethnic map of the Balkans in the 1870s by a French geographer. Take note that it apparantly over-represents Greeks, as estimated by modern historians Here's an ethnic map of the Balkans in the 1870s made by the Greek government. See if you can spot the differences between this one and the other one 
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Nov 18, 2014 20:30
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Srbija do Tokija! Srbija do Tokija!
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icantfindaname posted:-Maps- I also love how the second map adds Romanian because of their tiny sliver in the North, but Croatian and Bosnian? They can go gently caress themselves.
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VerdantSquire posted:I also love how the second map adds Romanian because of their tiny sliver in the North, but Croatian and Bosnian? They can go gently caress themselves. Hey, pay attention! SaltyJesus posted:Srbija do Tokija! Srbija do Tokija!
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Norway is one of the few countries where the Gulf Stream has a significant impact on temperature. For the remaining western parts of Europe it's the oceans' capacity for storing heat and the direction of the prevailing winds, as well as the Rocky Mountains disturbing the flow of air in the atmosphere which give us such mild winters. It's the same effect (the Rockies notwithstanding) which makes Vancouver's average low in January around 25C higher than Khabarovsk in Russia, despite being at the same latitude. Yes, I was in Norway late August and flew out to Tromsø (for reasons), and on our last day there we enjoyed a comfortable 22° in the Sun, chilling by the water, despite being well north of the Arctic Circle. If you don't mind some hardship while camping and living on a budget (Norway is hella expensive), it's a lovely vacation destination, by the way. I can only recommend it.
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the jizz taxi posted:Yes, I was in Norway late August and flew out to Tromsø (for reasons), and on our last day there we enjoyed a comfortable 22° in the Sun, chilling by the water, despite being well north of the Arctic Circle. Coincidentally, Tromso is the bing.com homepage picture/topic of the day today. Weird. Picture is beautiful though.
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