politically-loaded maps: sputtering flemishly

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3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Tree Goat posted:

does finnish have an equivalent to the académie française

Yes, but the loving French keep ignoring its findings.

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3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Ras Het posted:

Yes but because we're Finnish we call it Language Office

...but its name is Department of Language Maintenance.

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i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

appropriate it has its own slang

# ? Aug 8, 2022 00:39

Tree Goat: May 24, 2009; argania spinosa

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Yes, but the loving French keep ignoring its findings.

combining finnish noun cases, french genders, and a superset of francofinnish vowel sounds to create what i call "perkelais", the language designed to piss everybody off

# ? Aug 8, 2022 00:42

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Tree Goat posted:

combining finnish noun cases, french genders, and a superset of francofinnish vowel sounds to create what i call "perkelais", the language designed to piss everybody off

Kun pierasee niin lemuaa.

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FishBulbia: Dec 22, 2021

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Snowy: Oct 6, 2010; A man whose blood
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The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense

FishBulbia posted:

How is the momo not on there :confused:

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FreudianSlippers: Apr 12, 2010; Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

Cartographer said "No momo".

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ChubbyChecker: Mar 25, 2018

FreudianSlippers posted:

Cartographer said "No momo".

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

FishBulbia posted:

An interesting theory, but it's much more readily explained by dumplings being used as rations during the Finno-Korean Hyperwar

# ? Aug 8, 2022 08:18

Tuxedo Gin: May 21, 2003; Classy.

dumplings were a staple of the ancients and when they brought humans to earth and planted the stargate, they introduced dumplings.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 13:37

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The real winners here are Japan, India, and Italy, which did not get conquered by Mongols and yet still made out with some delightful dumplings.

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SlothfulCobra: Mar 27, 2011

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AAAAA! Real Muenster: Jul 12, 2008; My QB is also named Bort

Is it me or is it weird to include the African bits on that map? Because whats included on this map simply includes the coastal bits of the different Atlas ranges that go, essentially, east-to-west. And south of that this map has land that as far as I understand it isnt too mountainous at all?

# ? Aug 8, 2022 15:06

Triskelli: Sep 27, 2011; I AM A SKELETON
WITH VERY HIGH
STANDARDS

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Is it me or is it weird to include the African bits on that map? Because whats included on this map simply includes the coastal bits of the different Atlas ranges that go, essentially, east-to-west. And south of that this map has land that as far as I understand it isnt too mountainous at all?

The Anti-Atlas mountains specifically were part of the same range as the Appalachians and the Caledonians.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 15:18

A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Is it me or is it weird to include the African bits on that map? Because whats included on this map simply includes the coastal bits of the different Atlas ranges that go, essentially, east-to-west. And south of that this map has land that as far as I understand it isnt too mountainous at all?

I think it's basically just marking the extent of the ancient mountains. The ones in Norway were just as flat not that long ago, having eroded down into flat plains, before recent uplift made them mountains again and erosion exposed the old rock.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 15:24

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Why are the Caledonian Mountains in Norway?

# ? Aug 8, 2022 15:29

AAAAA! Real Muenster: Jul 12, 2008; My QB is also named Bort

Triskelli posted:

The Anti-Atlas mountains specifically were part of the same range as the Appalachians and the Caledonians.

Triskelli posted:

The Anti-Atlas mountains specifically were part of the same range as the Appalachians and the Caledonians.

Duly noted, thank you both, I guess I understood that wrong last time I looked at it.

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A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Why are the Caledonian Mountains in Norway?

Vikings stole them

# ? Aug 8, 2022 15:56

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

A Buttery Pastry posted:

I think it's basically just marking the extent of the ancient mountains. The ones in Norway were just as flat not that long ago, having eroded down into flat plains, before recent uplift made them mountains again and erosion exposed the old rock.

whoa

# ? Aug 8, 2022 17:02

SlothfulCobra: Mar 27, 2011

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Why are the Caledonian Mountains in Norway?

Because an Austrian named the ancient mountain range after the bit that was in Europe.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 17:40

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# ? Aug 10, 2022 01:38

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Milo and POTUS posted:

I actually used this map for a class discussion at one point recently. My students and I concluded that the purple is a mix of London immigrants and their descendents, and Ulster Protestants.

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ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

huge, source

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Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Grape posted:

I actually used this map for a class discussion at one point recently. My students and I concluded that the purple is a mix of London immigrants and their descendents, and Ulster Protestants.

And Leicester

# ? Aug 10, 2022 03:50

Grape: Nov 16, 2017; Happily shilling for China!

ultrafilter posted:

huge, source

That sudden oceanic abyss is eerily almost exactly where I find Connecticut to stop feeling like NYC metro and start feeling like New England.
The coast suddenly stops being dense suburbs and mini-cities, and starts being cute little leafy shore towns with lots of clam shacks.

Grape fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Aug 10, 2022

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SlothfulCobra: Mar 27, 2011

I've heard that a problem with the transit system around NYC is that there's no beltways to go around Manhattan, so people have to funnel through the busiest part of the network to get between different branches.

Also nice to see the rail just zig right around my hometown. Maybe if it zagged I'd have grown into a proper train nerd. Or at least have developed some kind of understanding of how to interpret rail maps in relation to the real world.

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Yeah the New York subway is very radial and Manhattan focused. It desperately needs a loop line.

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Milo and POTUS posted:

I'm not the only one who thought "The Senate and ... Rome", right?

(Obviously, the redder it is, the more Roman.)

# ? Aug 10, 2022 09:55

GoutPatrol: Oct 17, 2009; *Stupid Babby*

Grand Fromage posted:

Yeah the New York subway is very radial and Manhattan focused. It desperately needs a loop line.

It is called "the city" for a reason.

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ThisIsJohnWayne: Feb 23, 2007; Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!

I always knew Wales were the henchmen of dictatorial rule

# ? Aug 10, 2022 10:27

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Platystemon posted:

And Leicester

Saying you're English in Leicester is/was seen as pretty much the same as saying you have strong views about 'the Asians'.

There seems to be a similar but much less pronounced trend in Nottingham, Derby, and Birmingham/West Midlands. I'm surprised it's that much smaller but then again through folk history a bunch of people in Leicester still associate the Kingdom of England with the Sack of Leicester.

# ? Aug 10, 2022 11:21

FreudianSlippers: Apr 12, 2010; Shooting and Fucking
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who sacked Leicester, was believed by many to be a witch and his dog Boy, a large white poodle, was thought to be a shape shifting immortal being (either a demon or a Sami witch depending on the source) who would catch any bullets fired at his master in his mouth. This belief was proven wrong when Boy was shot and killed at Marston Moor in 1644.

Rupert's Land, the territory of the Hudson Bay Company, in what is now Canada was named after Rupert.