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Wow, Malaya and Thailand become part of China, and the Commonwealth swallows Indonesia. And Palestine becomes "Hebrewland", it's quite hilarious. Also Greece has its own federal republic and Turkey is its own independent nation. Two tiny states sandwiched between the USSR and the Western alliance, gee I wonder if some president might try to butt his head in.
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Lobster God posted:In a similar vein:
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm almost certain it's from The Economist actually. It definitely doesn't look very equidistant though. 
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Feb 7, 2013 19:48
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How are any of these railway maps "politically loaded"?
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What is the legal status of rivers that are used as borders? Who collects levy fees, pays for clean-ups and prevents the other side from doing dumb things with it?
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The Chinese name of Nepal is a transliteration of the English name anyway. Look for "Expensive State" at the bottom. It's quite fun figuring out what the Chinese name is supposed to be without any knowledge of Chinese geography.
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The map is so meaningless as to be useless. People treat different foreigners differently. A pasty white man doesn't get the same reception as a black man in most countries of the world, not to mention in some of the Eastern European countries. The Chinese diaspora get a much better reception in China than a Japanese, but we're all considered "foreign visitors" in that survey. I don't know what company, academic or layman can meaningfully use that map.
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Mar 25, 2013 05:02
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Why doesn't Canada get a colour?
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menino posted:Speaking of Iran:
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Apr 30, 2013 22:26
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Actually, yes: Ísland
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Jun 6, 2013 14:46
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Is there a reason Montenegro has so many officers?
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Jun 15, 2013 14:13
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Replace the word "Parliament" with "Legislature". There you go, loving semantics.
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Jun 18, 2013 21:19
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Why Venezuela?
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Amarkov posted:The British, like all colonial powers, didn't really "get" their colonies. So when British India got its independence, it was partitioned into two parts: majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. Modern Bangladesh was part of Pakistan, because they were Muslims and all Muslims need to be in the same country I guess.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India#Mountbatten_Plan 
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It is impossible to translate between languages with the same meaning. At best you're doing a best-fit conversion and you're still losing a ton of nuance and indeed, culture. If you have any knowledge of another language, preferably one of a different family, you'll realise how obvious this point is.
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Somebody needs to make a strategy game with this map.
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King Hong Kong posted:This map is a wonderful illustration of how the experience of European colonization in the Americas - in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries - created a very different notion of citizenship than the closest medieval and early modern equivalents to "citizenship" in Europe as well as the subsequent notions of citizenship in Europe and the world.
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Florida is just identity theft? No way dude.
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Kalos posted:If it's any consolation, I'm pretty sure most of the US thinks England, the United Kingdom, and Great Britain are all completely interchangeable terms that mean the exact same thing. Vegetable fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jul 11, 2013 |
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eSports Chaebol posted:Even this list is wrong: there is no such thing as "Britain" other than as an abbreviation of "Great Britain"
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You should all move to city-states because we don't have this problem 
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Jul 12, 2013 05:01
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Or Monaco or Vatican City! (I had thought there were more)
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This map kicks rear end so much. Are there more symbolic maps like this?
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"Lake Erie is a Great Lake" translates as 伊利湖是个大湖. The problem with that is twofold: 1. There isn't really a way to signal proper nouns in Chinese. In English capitalization is used (Great Lake instead of great lake), but beyond punctuations there isn't something like that in Chinese. So imagine reading "Lake Erie is a great lake". 2. ...EXCEPT the character for "great" is also that for "big". So now you're reading "Lake Erie is a big lake". "Lake Erie is one of the Great Lakes" is less problematic. It translates as 伊利湖是五大湖其中之一, which is literally: Lake Erie is Five Great Lakes, Of Which One. It's only four more characters which I don't think is especially cumbersome, but it's certainly more elegant in English.
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Teddles posted:From the last page, but this map is pretty cool; unless I've got something horribly wrong, the characters for America literally read a-me-ri-c(k)a, with north- and south- added in the appropriate places. Here's a thumbnail:  Direct link to the huge loving thing.
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Fojar38 posted:The Chinese name for Canada is literally "Village?"
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Australia isn't "Big Harbour", although the choices of characters used to transliterate it lend themselves towards marine associations. There's somehow an entire PDF on this topic.KernelSlanders posted:If I remember correctly the word for the U.S. is mei guo, which means beautiful kingdom. To get back from the derail, here are three maps.   (included this one just for The Han Tyranny  ) Every country needs a partition plan.
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Great post, Lord Hydronium. Does this mean globes are generally accurate for areas and stuff? Are there ways a globe can be biased?
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Who is the "they" in "what they call themselves"? The native people? The majority? The Chinese are surely not the natives of Taiwan, though I don't know what the indigenous people call their land. On Myanmar, the name has a negative connotation because it's associated with the military junta that formalized it. But yeah, it's basically the same word as Burma, and I don't think many Burmans make a fuss about it.
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Bloodnose posted:By this token, we shouldn't consider 'The United States of America' to be the local name of that country, since English speakers aren't the natives. For all intents and purposes, the local language in Taiwan is Chinese. You could debate whether Hokkien, Hakka or Mandarin is the appropriate variety of Chinese to call 'local,' but that's neither here nor there.
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Lawman 0 posted:Oh heres a good one.
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I suppose this is the thread to ask this question. Would the Winkel Tripel projection be the best idea for a wall map? And does anybody know where to get it at an affordable price?
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Brennanite posted:It's from the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
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Darth Various posted:abunchofmoviesyou'veneverheardof.jpg
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muike posted:When China writes down foreign words they do it by phonetically spelling it with similar words in Chinese, that, if used as Chinese, are absolute gibberish.
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There is no hypothetical situation. Unless China gets a Gorbachev-esque type of leader, Tibet is not going anywhere.
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esquilax posted:Then use China/Tibet as an example. It's likely that President Xi allowing Tibet to secede would be politically unacceptable for him, and that they would "have no choice but to invade". It still doesn't mean that their leaders don't have agency over the situation, and it doesn't mean that we should shrug our shoulders and say "well, they had to do it." Our understanding of our own civil war would inform our national discussions about this hypothetical. Lincoln and the north made a conscious decision to maintain the Union (PS this was a good thing), and were not simply dragged into a war by the seceded south with no ability to peace out. Circumstances can be pressing, but most people, not least people in power, still have a choice to make. I don't think it's a pedantic distinction -- history has a wealth of people who defied the "inevitable" decision and made things far worse than they needed to be. As mentioned, it also enables contemporary leaders to use the same excuse: that they have no choice but to act.
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They should just rename every body of water so they're non-political.
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The Netherlands, any of the Scandinavian countries, and Singapore are all pretty decent as they come.
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