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Germany's and Poland's both seem pretty easy to do.
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Dec 16, 2020 13:37
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Dec 16, 2020 13:39
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The Icelandic word for tank is ,,skriðdreki" or Crawl-Dragon. Strangely kite is Flight-Dragon and scorpion is Tail-Dragon
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Dec 16, 2020 13:51
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In French, it's also very common to use "char d'assaut" (or simply "char"), literally an attack chariot.
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Dec 16, 2020 14:03
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I'm not really sure if I understand this map, but "tanque" in portuguese can mean both the combat vehicle and water container, so we should, again, be together with our Eastern European brothers.
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Dec 16, 2020 14:32
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To no one's surprise, half of Belgium should actually be blue. Rookie mistake, really.
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Dec 16, 2020 14:35
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Deltasquid posted:
Italy is by far the best here
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Dec 16, 2020 14:38
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Deltasquid posted:
I don't understand North Africa's.
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Dec 16, 2020 15:51
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Kassad posted:In French, it's also very common to use "char d'assaut" (or simply "char"), literally an attack chariot. "Char" and "Tank" can be used interchangeably in french, so the map is already bad 
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Dec 16, 2020 16:34
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Chikimiki posted:"Char" and "Tank" can be used interchangeably in french, so the map is already bad Same in Danish, "kampvogn" (battle wagon) is the older Danish word that the military probably uses, everyone else says "tank". Portugal is still Eastern Europe though.
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Dec 16, 2020 16:50
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Deltasquid posted:
Italy is perfect 
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Dec 16, 2020 17:08
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Kassad posted:In French, it's also very common to use "char d'assaut" (or simply "char"), literally an attack chariot. In Québec a char is just a car.
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Dec 16, 2020 20:34
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Average Lettuce posted:I'm not really sure if I understand this map, but "tanque" in portuguese can mean both the combat vehicle and water container, so we should, again, be together with our Eastern European brothers.
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Dec 16, 2020 22:28
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FreudianSlippers posted:The Icelandic word for tank is ,,skriðdreki" or Crawl-Dragon. And dragon is Flame-Cod
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Dec 16, 2020 23:13
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In Québec a char is just a car. Taking my chariot to work
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Dec 16, 2020 23:38
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3D Megadoodoo posted:And dragon is Flame-Cod It's cod all the way down.
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Dec 16, 2020 23:44
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:It's commonly called tank in a lot of the other languages too. They're probably just going by some "official" term. Wikipedia has Carro de combate as the primary term, maybe they made the map based on that. "No tenemos ni aviones, ni tanques ni cañones, ¡Ay Carmela! ¡Ay Carmela!"
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Dec 17, 2020 01:31
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:It's commonly called tank in a lot of the other languages too. They're probably just going by some "official" term. Wikipedia has Carro de combate as the primary term, maybe they made the map based on that. I wonder how much of that is a recent development brought about due to the omnipresence of American media?
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Dec 17, 2020 03:02
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Greg12 posted:"No tenemos ni aviones, ni tanques ni cañones, ¡Ay Carmela! ¡Ay Carmela!" read this to the tune of Ayy Macarena! and guffawed
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Dec 17, 2020 06:24
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Taking my chariot to work Just loving lol if you don't tbh.
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Dec 17, 2020 09:39
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Dec 17, 2020 18:01
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This is from world war 1 when Japan was with the allies so lol at the racism that leads to them seizing way more land than austria-hungary or the ottomans.
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Dec 17, 2020 18:15
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:This is from world war 1 when Japan was with the allies so lol at the racism that leads to them seizing way more land than austria-hungary or the ottomans. And Romania, also in the Allies, gets Jamaica?
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Dec 17, 2020 18:20
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I'm down with this. Especially Canada.
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Dec 17, 2020 18:27
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 There are more Trump voters in California than Texas, more Biden voters in Texas than New York, more Trump voters in New York than Ohio, more Biden voters in Ohio than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than Vermont.
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Dec 17, 2020 18:51
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Byzantine posted:And Romania, also in the Allies, gets Jamaica?
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Dec 17, 2020 19:14
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So who named the Gulf of Hate and related bodies of water? Or are they words of a Prussian-Turconic-Americanese pidgin dialect, which don't mean what their English analogues suggest? Fascinating world, here.
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Dec 17, 2020 19:44
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Dec 17, 2020 20:18
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galagazombie posted:I wonder how much of that is a recent development brought about due to the omnipresence of American media? It's been like that since my childhood in the 90s at least. Basically, tanks are a pretty recent thing that you don't see in everyday life*, so you get the term mostly in American media, with no strong cultural reason to prefer the longer Danish word other than "English words are bad", which is a common but ineffective sentiment. But really, American cultural imperialism started up pretty much right after WWII, which is when tanks became a serious battlefield thing. Add to that the American military presence in Europe, and you can see how it's hard to separate, at least from the tank perspective. *Unless you lost the birth lottery and/or joined the military.
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Dec 17, 2020 20:38
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https://twitter.com/apapenheim/status/1339500029741035520
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Dec 17, 2020 20:49
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Lol everyone takes buses bc it’s overpriced and not that great E: poo poo that’s the map
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Dec 17, 2020 20:58
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It's a clever map, but those place names could have been more realistic. "Toronto"?
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Dec 17, 2020 21:17
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I can't believe Canadian irredentists want North Dakota of all places.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:22
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I'm the lack of rail between Calgary and Edmonton.
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Dec 17, 2020 23:43
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I'm also Regina going to South Dakota instead of on to Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. I'm also the line running to Isle Royal for ~*~reasons~*~
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Dec 17, 2020 23:44
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https://twitter.com/bigcitydinosaur/status/1339569718718574593?s=20
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Dec 17, 2020 23:53
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frankenfreak posted:The Netherlands, completely neutral, get most of the Caribbean. What? 'Vestindielandt' if anything, sounds Scandinavian (and even that would more likely be something like 'Vestindilan'). In Dutch it would be 'West-Indië'. It is true though that the Netherlands were more sympathetic to the Central Powers, but the map maker had a pretty poor understanding of geopolitics, or they expected their audience to just think anyone outside of the greater Entente powers was with the Central Powers somehow.
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Dec 18, 2020 00:15
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Last time that map was posted, it was determined to be a parody map. Just mentioning that it should be seen as something out of The Onion of the time, not The New York Times.
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BonHair posted:Last time that map was posted, it was determined to be a parody map. Just mentioning that it should be seen as something out of The Onion of the time, not The New York Times. If that's what was said last time, I think that's overstating it. From what I can glean online, Life magazine in the period was a humour and general interest magazine, more like Reader's Digest or the New Yorker than The Onion. The editors during WWI were fiercely interventionist, quoth the Wiki: quote:This version of Life took sides in politics and international affairs, and published fiery pro-American editorials. Mitchell and Gibson were incensed when Germany attacked Belgium; in 1914 they undertook a campaign to push the U.S. into the war. Seven years studying at Paris art schools made him partial to the French; there was no unbiased coverage of the war. Gibson drew the Kaiser as a bloody madman, insulting Uncle Sam, sneering at crippled soldiers, and shooting Red Cross nurses. Mitchell lived just long enough to see Life's crusade result in the 1917 U.S. declaration of war. So I don't think it's meant to be parody in the vein of, say, The Onion's Kelly. It's an earnest polemic using exaggeration to make a point it is dead serious about.
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