|
Unreal_One posted:It very much depends on how you define Norse, I guess. Is the Proto-Germanic spoken in 5th century BC Denmark Norse? I'd be unsurprised if the etymology of kraft is much older than Hippocrates, but it's also arguable if that's Norse yet. You'd need to go another thousand years back to get to our first recorded mention of cancer (although by another name). An Egyptian physician's surgical manual from about 1600 BCE describes a tumorous ailment that is likely cancer. Somewhat chillingly, in a scroll that is otherwise full of occasionally incorrect but generally practical advice for surgical treatments, for this ailment the author concludes "there is no treatment."
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 14:42
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 04:37 |
|
|
https://twitter.com/bencoates1/status/1488879801700163585 I like having a healthy sleep schedule.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 19:50
|
|
|
Carbon dioxide posted:https://twitter.com/bencoates1/status/1488879801700163585 To think, the lazy dutch are gretting 18 minutes of sleep more than the industerious germans!
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 19:57
|
|
|
In bed doesn’t mean asleep!
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 20:04
|
|
|
Carbon dioxide posted:https://twitter.com/bencoates1/status/1488879801700163585
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 20:16
|
|
|
Subjunctive posted:In bed doesn’t mean asleep! the traditional italian sleeping pattern is in the field, using hay as a pillow, while an oversized hat covers their eyes. the map does not seemingly account for this.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 20:47
|
|
|
When I worked for the shipyard, we'd all sleep for an hour on our 30-minute lunch break. Is that calculated in? The older guys had mattresses but I had to make do with a comfy chair.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 20:53
|
|
|
Do those maps take into account bizarre foreign nap culture??
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 20:54
|
|
|
A Buttery Pastry posted:I mean, I don't think it'd be hard to argue that sleeping longer is a natural consequence of working harder. Only if that's your stereotype. If it was shorter you'd be IRONICALLY quipping about the industrious Nordics outpacing the indolent people of lesser latitudes. IRONICALLY.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2022 22:04
|
|
|
Carbon dioxide posted:https://twitter.com/bencoates1/status/1488879801700163585 Portugal/Eastern Europe, etc.. Actually I think it's more precise to say Portugal is the Balkans in this case.
|
|
#
?
Feb 7, 2022 00:54
|
|
|
Danes are podpeople and never sleep
|
|
#
?
Feb 7, 2022 01:59
|
|
|
FreudianSlippers posted:Danes are podpeople and never sleep A friend lived in Zimbabwe (I think? it was two decades ago) for a while, and encountered the superstition that albinos are immortal*. When they asked how anyone could believe that, the answer was: "have you ever seen a dead albino?" Same with Danes and sleep. *) Dunno how common a superstition, but I know there's plenty of other superstitions about people with albinism in many African countries.
|
|
#
?
Feb 7, 2022 08:19
|
|
|
God I wish I could sleep as much as a European.
|
|
#
?
Feb 7, 2022 10:40
|
|
|
GoutPatrol posted:God I wish I could sleep as much as a European. Even the higher end countries there at 7.5 hours ish likely have most of the population not getting enough sleep, it should really be at well over 8 as an average. The developed world has an endemic of sleep deprivation going on, its pretty horrifying when you read into the health effects of it. Most people could improve their lives significantly by sleeping an extra hour a night.
|
|
#
?
Feb 7, 2022 13:40
|
|
|
Carbon dioxide posted:You can absolutely use "coronalijer" (corona-sufferer) as a swear if you like, the language is flexible like that. I mean, yeah, I recently told a friend: "Blijf met je vuile aidshanden van m'n lijf" ("Keep your dirty AIDS paws off me"). She does not have AIDS by the way. In re: "die slow", a local curse here is "Sterf thuis!" ("Go die at home"). It's a bit of a weird one. I also recall an incident in Norway where a drunken old man yelled "dø!" at me from the counter of a hotel. He thought I didn't understand him.
|
|
#
?
Feb 7, 2022 18:48
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 14:15
|
|
|
It (correctly) lists "nine nine" on Finland but nowhere else, as I see it. Is this true?
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 14:22
|
|
|
i dont think denmarks math works out
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 14:31
|
|
|
Blut posted:Even the higher end countries there at 7.5 hours ish likely have most of the population not getting enough sleep, it should really be at well over 8 as an average. But number has to go up. No, not that number.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 14:33
|
|
|
BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:i dont think denmarks math works out 4.5 times 20 is 90, plus 9 is 99, works perfectly
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 14:56
|
|
|
gently caress off Batman posted:4.5 times 20 is 90, plus 9 is 99, works perfectly Somehow I missed the plus 9
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 15:43
|
|
|
The gently caress out of here Vatican.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 16:47
|
|
|
Neat map. How did Basque, Georgian, and French all come up - presumably independently - with the same weird system? Covering the southern half of France with a historical language that is no longer spoken by anyone is kind of odd too. Like why is Occitan considered but not actually spoken languages like Amazigh in North Africa? And then is it uniquely Welsh with the 10 + 4x20 + 9 system? I don’t quite understand how that is conveyed by Nawdeg Naw. Sounds like like it is 90+9 to me.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 20:37
|
|
|
Saladman posted:And then is it uniquely Welsh with the 10 + 4x20 + 9 system? I don’t quite understand how that is conveyed by Nawdeg Naw. Sounds like like it is 90+9 to me. I don't actually know welsh, but I will take on the map's word that <transcribes the words indicated by **> means 10 + 4x20 + 9. Also, I was looking where it was 100 - 1, but then it dawned on me that it looks like a thing from the roman numeral system, and yep. Close enough.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 20:47
|
|
|
If it's doing all the variations Wales should have purple too for cant namyn un.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 20:52
|
|
|
Shouldn't the pope be using whatever <XCIX> is?
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 20:57
|
|
|
Antifa Spacemarine posted:Shouldn't the pope be using whatever <XCIX> is? IC is the same thing with less letters.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 21:01
|
|
|
ILL
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 21:05
|
|
|
 Someone posted it to reddit. Their rationale was "gently caress states, vivent les départements!"
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 21:13
|
|
|
Saladman posted:Neat map. How did Basque, Georgian, and French all come up - presumably independently - with the same weird system? It's not even a particularly weird numeral base.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 21:18
|
|
|
saintonan posted:IC is the same thing with less letters. There are weird rules about the subtraction thing. Only a power of 10 letter (I, X, C, etc) can be the subtracted number at all, and then only from the next two bigger letters. So you could have IV and IX, but not IL, IC, etc. This is why copyright dates in the 20th century all started with MCM... and didn't become shorter subtractive things as the year 2000 approached -- the only thing you can subtract from an M is a C. Like 1995 isn't MVM since that's two different kinds of wrong; it has to be MCMXCV. Powered Descent fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Feb 9, 2022 |
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 21:26
|
|
|
And then kings and clocks have their own stupid rules like 8 being VIII instead of IIX.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 21:28
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:And then kings and clocks have their own stupid rules like 8 being VIII instead of IIX. to my knowlegde IIX was never a thing IIII did exist, however
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 21:32
|
|
|
Powered Descent posted:There are weird rules about the subtraction thing. Only a power of 10 letter (I, X, C, etc) can be the subtracted number at all, and then only from the next two bigger letters. So you could have IV and IX, but not IL, IC, etc. This is why copyright dates in the 20th century all started with MCM... and didn't become shorter subtractive things as the year 2000 approached -- the only thing you can subtract from an M is a C. Like 1995 isn't MVM since that's two different kinds of wrong; it has to be MCMXCV.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 21:38
|
|
|
A Buttery Pastry posted:Were the Romans ever such sticklers for math rules? I feel like they'd be more likely to write the ICth Legion and then telling any Greeks who tried to correct them to shut up or get on the cross. No. The rules came long after the decline of the Roman Empire.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 22:15
|
|
|
Jasper Tin Neck posted:Many European languages originally used vigesimal counting systems before Greek and Roman influence and the adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals made decimal the standard. Huh, interesting that only modern French retained it of Romance languages — not even Occitan, let alone Swiss or Belgian. It’d be interesting to see a more international version of that map. Like how do indigenous North American and New Guinean languages count 99?
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2022 23:53
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2022 01:32
|
|
|
Saladman posted:Neat map. How did Basque, Georgian, and French all come up - presumably independently - with the same weird system? Covering the southern half of France with a historical language that is no longer spoken by anyone is kind of odd too. Like why is Occitan considered but not actually spoken languages like Amazigh in North Africa? One of the most interesting alternate futures is that England loses all the possessions in the north of France; Calais, Normandy, etc etc, but somehow keeps Guyenne. It becomes a constituent country like Wales, or Scotland. And those people create their own culture and keep their own language separate from English separate from Parisian French.
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2022 04:13
|
|
|
Mercator! 
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2022 04:23
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 04:37 |
|
|
Interstates are neat, complicated, and impossibly massive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fn_30AD7Pk  Of course, the interstates are not the only federal national highways, but they are the most comprehensive of the highway projects across the nation.  A metro-style highway map.  An actual long-distance rail map. (not comprehensive, just some long-distance Amtrak routes) https://amtrakguide.com/routes/  I see a lot of Europeans doing videos on their transit systems, but they're usually much more localized and done on a way smaller scale than the way the US has to manage its systems. I guess the fact that the federal government has to design and fund most of the projects is one more thing that pushes our transit system to prioritize long-distance travel rather than local urban planning, and the scale of building means that it takes much longer to redesign the system, since much of the interstate system was planned and built at a time when Europe was also much more positive about cars.
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2022 18:23
|
|
