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Catalan and occitain sound like french but good, ngl Imagine a world where Oc reigns supreme and Île-de-France is called Lengadoui Also 
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It look like Spain’s french neck went hunchback on her
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big trivia FAIL posted:Catalans just screaming "Jesus!" when someone sneezes. Andorra, but yes.
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Count Roland posted:Not only does butterfly not sound nice at all, but its meaning is also gross if you think about it. "Milk-fat bug", hmm yes very romantic. Which is just one of the reasons Moths are better
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Badger of Basra posted:Why is Salud! not covered with the Health / To health color? Turkey is paraphrasing there. Cok means "lots".
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Carbon dioxide posted:Andorra, but yes. andorra is labeled above it as salut
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big trivia FAIL posted:andorra is labeled above it as salut yeah but that doesn't mean its not Andorra look at Switzerland
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My favorite word for butterflies is "vlinders"
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Rumda posted:yeah but that doesn't mean its not Andorra look at Switzerland Switzerland's don't have individual arrows pointing so I dunno whatever
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Bongo Bill posted:What currently existing borders would be the least plausible if you saw them on an alt-history map? Namibia and Canada-USA.
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Bongo Bill posted:What currently existing borders would be the least plausible if you saw them on an alt-history map? Saint Martin: it’s both too small and too significant an island to split like that. If you split some minor island making a maritime border, whatever, but the objective with Saint Martin is the island itself. It’s a prize, but it’s hardly a prize for two distant colonial powers to go King Solomon on. Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego: I can see reasons to split this island, but it’s just bizarrely done. Märket: this border has a weird shape and the otficial explanation for why it is so does not pass the smell test. How did they not notice they were building on the wrong side of the island? It’s not that big or oddly shaped. They totally decided “this is a better site for the building and we’ll get forgiven later.”  Pheasant Island: the border itself is fine. It’s the semesterly transfer that is weird. Lake Constance: what border? You failed to define one. See me after class.
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Bongo Bill posted:What currently existing borders would be the least plausible if you saw them on an alt-history map? The Isles of Lewis and Harris. The two islands that are actually one island but the people who live there like to pretend it's two islands. It sounds like a freakin Douglas Adams joke.
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The heap of enclaves and counter enclaves in Baarle, Netherlands/Belgium?
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Bongo Bill posted:What currently existing borders would be the least plausible if you saw them on an alt-history map? - Chile-Argentina, looks like someone just pulled a stretch tool all the way down. - India-Bangladesh with that string-sized strip of land connecting the main of India to the eastern part that also borders Bangladesh
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Tei posted:*drops a lot of opera singed in german*. here Too loving loud imo Also Gambia. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jun 12, 2021 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:Reposting some maps that for some reason ended up in the graphs thread. 
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Jun 12, 2021 16:42
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Are they not one of the few countries that still prefers the "The" as in "The Gambia"
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Now there’s a map that calls for Mercator. eta: 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Are they not one of the few countries that still prefers the "The" as in "The Gambia" The Bahamas as well
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Platystemon posted:Now there’s a map that calls for Mercator.
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Platystemon posted:How did they not notice they were building on the wrong side of the island? I've never seen this theory, just "we thought it was all Finland  ".
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I've never seen this theory, just "we thought it was all Finland For a long time the Wikipedia article explained it like this: quote:When it was built by the Russians and Finns in 1885 there were no clear maps of the island. After the completion of the lighthouse, it was discovered that it had been built on the Swedish part of the island. “Well shucks! We’ll never locate the border on this vast, featureless island without a better map!” Platystemon fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jun 12, 2021 |
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Interesting that all of Peru + the Guyanas + most of Venezuela + more than half of the UK would all add up to another stripe. Not a lot of people in those areas I guess. Especially compared to the stripe just north of it that manages all that population with just the tip of South America and nothing else. Kind of a burn on the midwest for being depopulated, but then it makes up a stripe basically on its own with no vertical space being taken up by anything else. Similar deal to how California needs a lot of extra space to make up the numbers with its stripe not going further south. And then Australia is tiny. I assume those islands up north of it had to make up for its emptiness.
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I'm Ew York
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I'm all for dunking on Alabama but singling it out like that is kinda harsh
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SlothfulCobra posted:Interesting that all of Peru + the Guyanas + most of Venezuela + more than half of the UK would all add up to another stripe. Not a lot of people in those areas I guess. Especially compared to the stripe just north of it that manages all that population with just the tip of South America and nothing else. The European half has Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, as well as the entire island of Ireland, so it's no slouch in giving the numbers. OTOH, the only major city in South America that stripe goes through that is Lima.
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OTOH, in british isles numbers: London metro = 14 million Scotland, NI, and Republic of Ireland = 12 million All of Ireland and geographically more than half of the UK is misleading in terms of land size too
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Jun 12, 2021 19:37
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Ireland wasn't that misleading before the famine tbf
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:OTOH, in british isles numbers: on the other hand just the north of england is 15 million people
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Frionnel posted:Ireland wasn't that misleading before the famine tbf  Its the only country in Europe to have a lower population now than in 1840, I believe. Colonialism didn't just screw over Africa.
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Rumda posted:on the other hand just the north of england is 15 million people Just the north of England is 15 million out of *checks notes* The 56 million total population of England
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Blut posted:
And to compare, England and Wales had 16 million people in 1841, so only double Ireland's population. Now they are closer to 10 times Ireland's population. Frionnel fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jun 12, 2021 |
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Blut posted:
:-O what the gently caress!
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Platystemon posted:Now there’s a map that calls for Mercator. Oh no I dropped my phone again
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Just the north of England is 15 million out of *checks notes* Yeah a third of the country has just under a third of the population.
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Tei posted::-O  Starting at Brussels and sweeping out.  Hundreds of thousands die, and this plays a part in the revolutions of 1848. It hits Britain, but very few die, due to of a surplus of non-potato food and farming and market system designed to place the burden of this on other places e.g. Ireland.  This turns the blight into a famine, hitting the poorest areas. 
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Its worth noting that Ireland's population loss wasn't just from the millions of famine induced deaths in the 1840s either. Desperation emigration resulted in millions fleeing the country both during the famine and for decades afterwards too. Between 1845 and 1895 the Irish population went from 8.2million to 4.5 million. During which time Scotland's population went from 2.5million to 4.5million, and England from 15 million to 30 million. Ireland in 1895 by the growth standards of neighbouring regions should have had a population of around 15 million, not under 5 million. Its a pretty horrifying loss of population.
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Bongo Bill posted:What currently existing borders would be the least plausible if you saw them on an alt-history map? The 'Stans of the former USSR, minus Kazakhstan. The borders are stupidly obtuse. This does happen sometimes, like Holland/Belgium or India/Bangladesh, but this is when there's a messy war fought in the area. Yet the countries of Central Asia were colonized by Russia in the 19th century. Looking at Africa you'd expect unreasonably straight borders, not the intentionally stupid ones we have today.
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