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Milo and POTUS posted:Wow Scotland seems even more obscure than sweden when it comes to european countries that ended up parts of the US scotland must really be the worst country at statecraft their lovely colonies hosed up their economy so bad that they thought that joining in a union with england was a good move
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BonHair posted:Aside about Norse/Danish words: don't count us as honourable warriors, we have two words for poisoning, one for deadly poison (forgive) and one for non-lethal (forgifte). Dutch does, too - 'vergeven' and 'vergiftigd', so it's probably more of a general Germanic thing ('vergeven' is archaic though).
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See, I didn't even know that, I was only aware of vergeven in the sense of 'to forgive'.
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Jun 25, 2022 16:12
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All the people from Stuart's Town moved into the Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge Mountains and highland culture is pretty ingrained in the area. It's the same mountains, after all
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ChubbyChecker posted:scotland must really be the worst country at statecraft
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 And you could have it all My Empire of Qwertz I will let you down Misstzpe yacht and yurt
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Jun 25, 2022 20:54
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“Empire of QWERT” would be a good username.
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Why aren't Serbia and FFYRM Northern Macedonia using cyrillic?
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Phlegmish posted:See, I didn't even know that, I was only aware of vergeven in the sense of 'to forgive'. The Dutch word for "non-lethally poison" is a homonym for "forgive?" That's fascinating.
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Makes sense for a raw herring in marinade culture.
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ASDF JKLÆ. Is the basic keyboard setting and I will not hear otherwise
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Jun 25, 2022 22:59
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lol if you don’t have the semicolon the home row
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Why aren't Serbia and FFYRM Northern Macedonia using cyrillic? They are small markets and no proper Cyrillic keyboards are sold there. The Russian Cyrillic script is different so it wouldn’t make sense to import their keyboards, so most people just buy regular English language keyboards with stuff like ć and č added by the sales company in form of stickers or additional prints on the keys.
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Jun 25, 2022 23:53
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 stole this from the ancient history thread
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That all checks out. Especially whale.
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:The Dutch word for "non-lethally poison" is a homonym for "forgive?" That's fascinating. lethal poison, but yes I don't know if they are actually cognates or arrived on the same form from a different path, though, but their homonymic entanglement is pretty old at least, e.g. "gift" means "something you give" in English and Dutch, but "Gift" in German means "poison".
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Elyv posted:
The label say "or Spanish" but Spanish appears multiple times.
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Tei posted:The label say "or Spanish" but Spanish appears multiple times. that's why it's in the bad map thread
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Jun 26, 2022 12:48
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Tei posted:The label say "or Spanish" but Spanish appears multiple times. I think it is referring to the Spanish spoken in Caucasian Iberia, not the Iberian Peninsula. That gets confusing sometimes, but they are very different languages.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:e.g. "gift" means "something you give" in English and Dutch, but "Gift" in German means "poison". one of my favourite Swedish Language Fun Facts is that "gift" means both "poison" (noun) and "married" (adjective)
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Angepain posted:one of my favourite Swedish Language Fun Facts is that "gift" means both "poison" (noun) and "married" (adjective) Works in Danish too. "Jeg er gift" means "I am poison/married". Saves me a lot of time explaining too.
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Idk what's going on in Scandinavia, but I'm in love with my wife. I'm glad my language doesn't need a "lmao this bitch I'd poison her/love her" cognate.
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Tei posted:The label say "or Spanish" but Spanish appears multiple times. At least Chilean Spanish is to my understanding accurate. Bit like relationship of rural Irish English https://youtu.be/pit0OkNp7s8 to Received Pronunciation https://youtu.be/Z8uW15pmF68 But that info is from an argentine friend of mine..
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Your friend is right. When Chilean soap operas are broadcast in other Spanish-speaking countries, many times they’ll put subtitles or even dubbed with more neutral Spanish.
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Elyv posted:
Took me a few seconds to realize this wasn't a serious map. I mean, whoever heard of 'Basque'? Ridiculous
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Phlegmish posted:Took me a few seconds to realize this wasn't a serious map. I mean, whoever heard of 'Basque'? Ridiculous
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Tei posted:The label say "or Spanish" but Spanish appears multiple times. I only see Chilean but I assume there's terms for spanish that don't include it Ghost Leviathan posted:That all checks out. Especially whale. Where's whale? e: poo poo, georgia. e2: gently caress, tennessee
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Redczar posted:Your friend is right. When Chilean soap operas are broadcast in other Spanish-speaking countries, many times they’ll put subtitles or even dubbed with more neutral Spanish. I have not seen subtitles for a spanish serie in spain. But I guess you could always find people that use a weird slang ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGx4VtwMnfM Tei fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jun 26, 2022 |
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Redczar posted:Your friend is right. When Chilean soap operas are broadcast in other Spanish-speaking countries, many times they’ll put subtitles or even dubbed with more neutral Spanish. "neutral" sure is doing a lot of politically loaded work there, señorito
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Checks out though.
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Guavanaut posted:Checks out though. Romania and Finland both switched and Iraq was briefly axis alligned
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Only one hispanophone country stayed neutral for the entire course of the war though :cryingfranco: Using modern borders leaves a lot of things that don't make much sense, like axis north and south Korea, although I see what they're getting at with axis Kaliningrad.
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I like Russia was axis and not "busy executing generals" in the beginning of the war. I also like that Denmark, a nation that was attacked and conquered within literally hours, counts as an ally.
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Also weird that the European colonial possessions are shown as "Allies" but the Japanese imperial possessions aren't shown as "Axis".
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Yes, Persia/Iran was "allied".
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Kenning posted:Also weird that the European colonial possessions are shown as "Allies" but the Japanese imperial possessions aren't shown as "Axis".
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That map's logic seems to be: Neutral countries that were invaded and ruthlessly conquered by any power whose name doesn't rhyme with "Boviet Bunion" count as "allies". Even if the USSR was your partner in the invasion, as long as it wasn't just them then brutal conquest is enough to magic you from a neutral to an allied nation.
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I guess I can understand showing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as 'joining the Axis' if you're being really harsh on Russia for some reason, but then showing all the other parts of the USSR as Allies before Pearl Harbor is just weird. *squints* Also Moldova is in the Axis?
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Byzantine posted:I guess I can understand showing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as 'joining the Axis' if you're being really harsh on Russia for some reason, but then showing all the other parts of the USSR as Allies before Pearl Harbor is just weird. You invade one country together with Nazi Germany, secretly divide the rest of eastern europe up with them, transfer them money, authorize German-supervised population transfers from your side of the border, and to mutually police it for dissident agitators and people start throwing all kinds of crazy labels around.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:"neutral" sure is doing a lot of politically loaded work there, señorito It’s the word used in Spanish  Standard Spanish if you prefer. RAE-approved Spanish
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