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Rumda posted:Same with York. :cryingredrose: York was the White Rose
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:York was the White Rose
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:Also I've just realized that in French we say "Le New Hampshire", "Le New Jersey" but "Le Nouveau Mexique" You're basically speaking english at this point. Nou Hampshire, Nova Jersey, Nou Mèxic, Nova York.
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doverhog posted:At least it doesn't have genders, at all. Or articles, for that matter. (Re: Finnish)
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Guavanaut posted:Even Britain doesn't class Jersey as part of Britain. But Jersey originally comes from the Jersey-Norman Jèrri in English and French. So Jersey is Norman. And Jersey in French is Jersey but jersey in French is maillot. This is important maybe.
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MarsDragon posted:But what about Nutella? Fun Fact: The German word "Band" can be male, female or neutral and takes on a different meaning for each gender Das Band: band, tape, ribbon Der Band: volume (of a book) Die Band: Music band (imported from the English, so it's pronounced differently) Number of genders:
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I see there are three genders in the English Channel.
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Carbon dioxide posted:I see there are three genders in the English Channel.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I never got far enough in learning a language to find out, but do native speakers (other than tumblrites) care at all if you misgender a noun? I don't know about other languages, but if you do this in romanian people will think you're illiterate (or ethnic hungarian) I don't know what you mean with tumblrites, as this is strictly a grammar thing, not a gender issue
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Try telling that to feminists you chauvinist patriarchal cis gendered oppressive scum! Oppression of womyn starts in language!111
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Riso posted:Try telling that to feminists you chauvinist patriarchal cis gendered oppressive scum! Oppression of womyn starts in language!111 oh my god
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Guavanaut posted:The French for Jersey is Jersey Haha yeah, that's true. I always figured it was an English name that the French never really bothered to translate, given the style. Wikipedia tells me it is likely derived from the Norse.
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Riso posted:Try telling that to feminists you chauvinist patriarchal cis gendered oppressive scum! Oppression of womyn starts in language!111
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point of return posted:You're the Nazi, right? Yeah that dude is an unironic fascist. HookShot posted:Haha yeah, that's true. I always figured it was an English name that the French never really bothered to translate, given the style. Wikipedia tells me it is likely derived from the Norse. Yeah names get muddled like that. But Jersey (And Guernsey and Alderney and Sark) were never conquered by the Anglo-Saxon types who took over England first, instead they came to be joined because of the Norman French who got them first and then went for the big prize of Britain. As such they're English names in the sense of post-invasion English, rather than Old English.
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point of return posted:You're the Nazi, right? He's the Nazi.
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Nazi requires proof in a court of law please stick to fascist, thanks.majormonotone posted:oh my god It's like you have never seen feminist critique of language and/or tumblr.
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Riso posted:Nazi requires proof in a court of law please stick to fascist, thanks. No it doesn't you whiny little clown.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 22:37 |
Post a map about it!!! women's suffrage
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Exclamation Marx posted:Post a map about it!!! I hadn't realized apartheid South Africa also didn't let women vote.
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(White) Women's suffrage in South Africa was achieved in 1930. Universal adult suffrage was the '94 election. e: This would have included South-West Africa, now Namibia too.
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Then that map is stupid. Women were allowed to vote, non-whites weren't.
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I think it is counted at the federal level, which is why Switzerland is orange and not maroon.Back To 99 posted:Then that map is stupid. Women were allowed to vote, non-whites weren't. Coloured and Indian people were able to vote from 1984; black people were not.
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I love the technicality that is the Vatican.
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Back To 99 posted:Then that map is stupid. Women were allowed to vote, non-whites weren't.
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Deltasquid posted:Fortunately, the Flemish dialect of all things has you covered. When translating Latin to Dutch my teacher in high school actually told us to use the Brabant dialect to figure out the gender of "de" words. Specifically, the indefinite article ("a" or "an" which is "een" in Dutch) in Brabant is "een" for feminine words and "ne" for masculine words. So let's say I forgot whether the word for "car" is masculine or feminine (De wagen/ de auto) I can just think of the dialect "it's NE wagen") and I know the word for car is masculine. Yes, being Flemish myself, I was taught that trick, too. It does help. Someone asked where grammatical gender or noun class comes from, I believe: well, as far as I recall, most languages seem to have either a masculine/feminine or an animate/inanimate divide. The reason so many IE languages have three grammatical genders is likely because at some point, Proto-Indo-European (PIE), which presumably had the animate/inanimate distinction, merged with an unattested language that had a masculine/feminine noun disctinction, resulting in Latin, Proto-Germanic, Ancient Greek and Proto-Slavic having three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine and inanimate (neuter). Interestingly, after thousands of years most languages seem to have reverted back to a dual system: masculine/feminine for Romance languages (not sure about Romanian here), and with most Germanic languages on track towards a sort-of kind-of revival of the animate/inanimate system (or utrum/neutrum if you want to call it that). German and Icelandic seem to be the most stubborn last holdouts here. I don't know enough about modern Slavic languages to say where they are currently headed, I only know a bit of Russian and know that it has retained the threeway noun classification.
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Exclamation Marx posted:Post a map about it!!! Are they counting countries in Africa based on independence? Could Algerian women vote in French elections?
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:I wouldn't say its so much stupid (i.e. there was no universal suffrage for women), as it is inconsistent (for example, the Company Charter Territory of Rhodesia seems to have granted all women the vote sometime in 1910-1920). Then the entire map should be black, as underage women aren't allowed to vote anywhere.
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Needs Puerto Rico
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 01:55 |
Might be missing a few. At 1.1 million people Fairfax County should be light blue or dark green. And maybe DC is a special case but I'd have given it the maroon color for beating Wyoming.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Needs Puerto Rico There are no counties in Puerto Rico.
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Riso posted:Nazi requires proof in a court of law please stick to fascist, thanks. Not here in the land of the free it doesn't
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PittTheElder posted:There are no counties in Puerto Rico. I know but still.
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PittTheElder posted:There are no counties in Puerto Rico. If you say so, but then DC isn't a state...
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:I know but still. The largest subdivision of Puerto Rico is San Juan, which is only 395,326. So none of it would be colored in, even if you considered the municipalities to be equivalent to counties. The metro area is 2.5 million people but that includes 41 municpalities.
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Guavanaut posted:(White) Women's suffrage in South Africa was achieved in 1930. Universal adult suffrage was the '94 election. Yeah, in Australia white women were allowed to vote sometime in the 10s, but Aboriginal ones weren't until the '67 referendum when it was determined that aboriginies were no longer considered "fauna"
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PittTheElder posted:There are no counties in Puerto Rico. There aren't any in Louisiana either, but it's on there
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HookShot posted:Yeah, in Australia white women were allowed to vote sometime in the 10s, but Aboriginal ones weren't until the '67 referendum when it was determined that aboriginies were no longer considered "fauna" Oh huh that's a real thing that actually happened. Christ.
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Weird BIAS posted:Oh huh that's a real thing that actually happened. Christ. Still not as bad as Canada which in the 90s argued that it did nothing wrong to the natives because genocide wasn't against the law then.
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Orange County. Also, drat California, where did you get all those peeps.
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