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System Metternich posted:Not that Low German, as "Erdäpfel" seems to be more pupolar in southern dialects. (Next to "Grundbirne" (ground pear) and variants thereof I always thought Grumpern were a Verballhornung of the slovenian Krumpir. May actually be the other way round then. In southern Styria we still mostly call them Erdäpfel.
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VerdantSquire posted:Eh, to be fair, they aren't all terrible. There are a few interesting designs, Alaska, Arizona, and New Mexico in particular. Its just that the ~40 other states seem to just really like "Boring Emblem on Blue Background" and "Variation of US flag" for whatever reason. California and Indiana would both be pretty good if they didn't feel the need to plaster: STATE NAME on them. New Mexico, Texas and South Carolina are all at least interesting. Oh, and Maryland's looks neat, it looks medieval for some reason.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Oh, and Maryland's looks neat, it looks medieval for some reason. Well, that's because it is medieval. It's the Coat of Arms for the guy who founded the colony of Maryland in the first place.
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Fojar38 posted:There's something wrong with this map but I can't quite put my finger on it. Don't disrespect the honorable Scandinavian nation of Brazil. It finally finished it's extended south-American time-out, and headed back north where it can fly its true flag once more. HonorableTB posted:A 12 pack of lovely domestic is $15 here. Really? Here in San Francisco, AKA stupid-loving-expensiveland, you can get a 12 pack of good craft beer for under $15 if you go to Trader Joe's or get stuff on sale at Safeway. Or you can get a 12 pack of horrible piss beer for less (7 bucks for store-brand stuff at Trader Joe's, that's no worse than twice-as-expensive bud/miller/coors garbage  ). At least we're not the most expensive city in America for everything, I guess.
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Rah! posted:Don't disrespect the honorable Scandinavian nation of Brazil. It finally finished it's extended south-American time-out, and headed back north where it can fly its true flag once more.
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derkaiser posted:I always thought Grumpern were a Verballhornung of the slovenian Krumpir. May actually be the other way round then. None of those are words. You're just making poo poo up to gently caress with the thread!
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Riso posted:"Earthapples" is pretty much dying out in German because it is seen as dialect to the perfect Kartoffel. In romanian the word for potato is cartof, which comes from kartoffel, but there are also regionalisms like bandraburca or barabula, both of which come from the word Brandenburg
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Fojar38 posted:There's something wrong with this map but I can't quite put my finger on it. Iceland is actually partly on the North American continental shelf. There's your problem. 3peat posted:In romanian the word for potato is cartof, which comes from kartoffel, but there are also regionalisms like bandraburca or barabula, both of which come from the word Brandenburg Was the potato introduced to Romania by the Germans?
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Phlegmish posted:Was the potato introduced to Romania by the Germans? It was introduced in Transylvania by Austrians, and from there it spread to Wallachia and Moldova.
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Phlegmish posted:Iceland is actually partly on the North American continental shelf. There's your problem. I thought it was the lack of Estonia or presence of Finland, depending on which way you want to go with it. Have some more etymologychat 
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So much work for no substantial gain all while ruining the Mediterranean's most beautiful sights. Where do I sign up? E: Basically, only a German could have come up with this.
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Russia would blow up any dam that traps their Black Sea Fleet in the Black Sea. Also, who would get all that land off the Turkish coast, around the Greek Islands there? That would be an explosive situation. Last but not least, this person hasn't understood the European immigration policy. Imagine African refugees no longer drowning in the seas but having a direct land connection to Europe! The horror!
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Soviet Commubot posted:I thought it was the lack of Estonia or presence of Finland, depending on which way you want to go with it. Uh, I always thought Noel was Hebrew, like names in -El meaning God.
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Soviet Commubot posted:Have some more etymologychat I can't help but notice both Hungary and Romania are using Proto-Slavic loanwords. :smuggislav:
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A canal all the way from Venice to the bottom of the former Adriatic. That sounds doable!!!
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I'm no engineer but I'm pretty sure the Suez canal wouldn't function very well if one side was 200m lower than the other. Particularly since there is no mention of adding locks. Who would even use it if it led into a dead end anyway? The traffic to the few remaining ports would be nowhere near enough to keep it worthwhile to maintain.
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Torrannor posted:Russia would blow up any dam that traps their Black Sea Fleet in the Black Sea. All of your concerns can be answered with 'the Reich has it all'.
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Most common suffixes for settlement names in Romania and Moldova: -EȘTI  '-ești' is the most widespread one (including the capital București), and it's the plural of the possessive suffix '-escu', which comes from the latin '-iscus' and is the cousin of french '-esque' -ENI/-ANI  These 2 are both plurals of the suffix '-an', which originates in the Latin '-anus'. As opposed to the first one, these are also widespread in Republica Moldova. -OV/-OVA/OVCA/-EVCA  All 4 are suffixes of slavic origin SÂN-/SFÂNT-/SFINȚ-  All 3 prefixes mean 'saint' and come from Latin. Source with more maps here: https://arnoldplaton.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/nume-de-localitati/
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Torrannor posted:Last but not least, this person hasn't understood the European immigration policy. Imagine African refugees no longer drowning in the seas but having a direct land connection to Europe! The horror!
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3peat posted:In romanian the word for potato is cartof, which comes from kartoffel, but there are also regionalisms like bandraburca or barabula, both of which come from the word Brandenburg Wikipedia actually lists "barabolya" as one of the dialectical names for Potatoes in Ukrainian --- won't surprise me if it came through Romanian. I only really recall kartoplya and bul'ba (actually generic for tubers) myself. They list a huge number of names, actually: quote:В Україні також «бу́льба», «бараболя», рідше «крумплі» (хорв. Krumpir), «ґрул'і», «барабу́рка», «бори́шка», «бу́рка», «гадабу́рка», «мандибу́рка», «рі́па».
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Poil posted:I'm no engineer but I'm pretty sure the Suez canal wouldn't function very well if one side was 200m lower than the other. Particularly since there is no mention of adding locks. Who would even use it if it led into a dead end anyway? The traffic to the few remaining ports would be nowhere near enough to keep it worthwhile to maintain. Honestly, having to parachute down container ships from that 200m waterfall is the least of the problems with this idea. It smells like one of these retarded Nazi plans: Think& dream big, never use your brain in the process, crash and burn, repeat.
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waitwhatno posted:Honestly, having to parachute down container ships from that 200m waterfall is the least of the problems with this idea. It smells like one of these retarded Nazi plans: Think& dream big, never use your brain in the process, crash and burn, repeat. Sounds like the Nazis would've made a great California tech startup!
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3peat posted:Most common suffixes for settlement names in Romania and Moldova: Am I supposed to see the old austro-hungarian border in every single map of romania I look at
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The only thing I see every time I see a map of Romania is this:
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Boiled Water posted:All of your concerns can be answered with 'the Reich has it all'. Sorgel wasn't popular with the nazis. Torrannor posted:Russia would blow up any dam that traps their Black Sea Fleet in the Black Sea. Poil posted:I'm no engineer but I'm pretty sure the Suez canal wouldn't function very well if one side was 200m lower than the other. Particularly since there is no mention of adding locks. Who would even use it if it led into a dead end anyway? The traffic to the few remaining ports would be nowhere near enough to keep it worthwhile to maintain. Freudian posted:A canal all the way from Venice to the bottom of the former Adriatic. That sounds doable!!!
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Torrannor posted:Last but not least, this person hasn't understood the European immigration policy. Imagine African refugees no longer drowning in the seas but having a direct land connection to Europe! The horror! This comment is hilarious, because the ultimate goal of Atlantropa was the exact opposite; forcibly remove the native population and cultures of Africa so that Europeans move in! The only reason it wasn't a hoot with the Nazis is because the plan was suppose to be a mutually exclusive alternative to Lebensraum. Doesn't mean that the guy didn't try to reconcile it with them though; after all, he did include a Hitler quote on one of his books.
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Soviet Commubot posted:I thought it was the lack of Estonia or presence of Finland, depending on which way you want to go with it. Are there any that come from Christi natale? It seems like all the yellow/orange ones are from natalis.
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Badger of Basra posted:Are there any that come from Christi natale? It seems like all the yellow/orange ones are from natalis. Albania's Kërshëndella. I'd love to know why they use a Latin word unlike their neighbours, but the only extended explanation I found is in (surprise) Albanian escape mechanism fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Dec 21, 2014 |
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OddObserver posted:Wikipedia actually lists "barabolya" as one of the dialectical names for Potatoes in Ukrainian --- won't surprise me if it came through Romanian. I only really recall kartoplya and bul'ba (actually generic for tubers) myself. They list a huge number of names, actually: Since Galicia was part of Austria it's most likely it originated there, and spread (with soldiers returning home) the same way as to the other parts of the Empire, i.e. in the aftermath of the War of Bavarian Succession of 1778. The war itself was insignificant, but Austrian armies, which were besieging Königsberg, were poorly supplied and avoided starvation largely because their Prussian (Brandenburg) enemies were just starting their potato harvest when Austrian units commenced foraging raids into their lands. The war remains popularly known as The Potato War to this very day.
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3peat, that link is a treasure trove. Information visualization is a huge interest of mine and that blogroll has some links I haven't seen yet. Thanks. escape mechanism, Albania had close political relations with Italy in the 20th century, they were a protectorate of Italy for over 20 years. I don't know how recent the term is, it could be some kind of Italian influence.
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Flight path are pretty political, and quite pretty. Blue lines represent flights at high altitude (i.e. flying over) London, with the high amount of stacking clearly visible.  New York,interesting how pretty much all lines paths south-north.  Tel Aviv, ever so slightly isolated. 
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sweek0 posted:Flight path are pretty political, and quite pretty. Blue lines represent flights at high altitude (i.e. flying over) Flying from Dubai to Beirut on MEA (Lebanese flag carrier), the onboard map doesn't even acknowledge Israel. Flight path is like threading a needle, avoiding Iraq altogether, and as much of Syria as possible while staying clear of Israeli airspace. This entails a zig-zag path over northern KSA, Jordan, and then the southwest corner of Syria. This must've just begun recently, as I flew the length of Iraq from north to south from DC to Qatar in July.
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sweek0 posted:Flight path are pretty political, and quite pretty. Blue lines represent flights at high altitude (i.e. flying over) These are very pretty, would there be some pictures showing wider regions?
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A flight map from DCA would be interesting. It's just across the river from Washington DC, all of which is a no-fly zone.
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I got those from BigThink's Strange Maps blog. This is their source which lets you scroll all over the world, although they do admit that they do not have every plane mapped.
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