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distortion park posted:I presume the reason the Nordic's 1st choice isn't English is because they're all already fluent? In the Duolingo app there’s a little loading blurb “advertising” that Swedish is the most popular language choice in Sweden, and they say it’s largely fuelled by refugees there.
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This is likely dying out now that fifteen years has passed, but when I last lived in rural central Texas, there were definitely still old folks who’s first language was either Czech or German - my Grandfather and great Aunt both were bilingual Czech-English, and in some really small towns you could still find Lutheran churches with services in the old language.
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Whereas all San Marino had to do was be nice to Garibaldi and so he left it there.
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Rebel Blob posted:"Grossbritannien" is much better, we should adopt it for the English language. Großbritannien is for cowards. Finally, the conquest of schweizerdeutsch!
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Carbon dioxide posted:Map doesn't go into the different use cases for stop signs: You’re not wrong but Europe still has commuter suburbs built by private developers with awful road layouts, so sign density isn’t actually directly correlated with population density
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:« Zealandia » is a colonizer name. Beleriand is preferred. You only have to change one letter and you get Aotearea!
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Saladman posted:If you're in Zurich before the end of the year, go to Jelmoli's grocery store. If not, then next time in a major Swiss city go to the Globus grocery store. Especially their produce section is crazy, like $11/kg potatoes. Some of them are unusual varietals that you can't get anywhere else, but even a bog standard potato will be like $7/kg. Globus isn’t a grocery store though, it’s a Bloomingdale’s level department store, and just like many European department stores it has a food section focused on luxury goods, imports, etc. Nobody in Switzerland does their big weekly shop at Globus. Migros and Coop are expensive enough for that.
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BonHair posted:To be more specific, it's nominally independent of the Euro, but the entire currency policy is that it must maintain the same conversion rate to the Euro at all times. So in theory Denmark could opt out, but in practice it's a palette swap. Also we aren't directly bound to support the Euro countries, which I think was relevant when Greece got hosed. The gulf states do the same thing with the dollar, to circle this digression back to the original map that started it.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think that actually would go the other way; since being identified as a true city involves extra politicking, that means that higher up governments will drag their heels on acknowledging that a settlement has gotten big enough that they'd have to reckon with. And sometimes you'll have the reverse where places do extra politicking to get their privileges before they have the right to them, or maintain their old privileges after they've fallen from grace and their population has shifted elsewhere. Historically though it used to be the reverse. In a premodern era before strong central governments, if you were a peasant on the land you were either somebody’s serf, owing feudal obligations, or you were a freeholder, without obligations but often without any political rights. Medieval and early modern cities actually had far more democratic and representative governments, so cities and city states often had far more developed concepts of citizenship or residency rights or permissions than the countryside, because political structures other than “that one guy runs poo poo” existed in cities and so levels of access to those structures - ranging from the ability to be one of the guys who runs poo poo through able to vote for them through not voting but can’t be asked to leave to allowed to stay, for now, if you pay, but that can change, all had to regulated in cities centuries earlier. Also, more prosaically, cities had walls, and so there had to be ways to control who was getting let inside them.
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Torrannor posted:So is that supposed to mean that all the red areas combined have 328 million trips per year, while the blue area alone has 466 million trips a year? Weird how when one side of the ledger excludes all US cities with a non-bus public transport system and the other has Vancouver that’s what you get.
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Private Speech posted:Vancouver doesn't even have underground rail though, so the point still stands. ?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaletown%E2%80%93Roundhouse_station If that’s the standard you’re holding cities to goddamn Chicago doesn’t have a metro. And it’s not that there are no big cities, it’s that there are no big cities that don’t require a car to live in.
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Carthag Tuek posted:spirit bombs are praxis Komsomolskayamehameha
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Lemniscate Blue posted:It all comes down to what "weekend" means. Weekend means Brexit.
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kiminewt posted:Another question: if you're American, and it's currently Sunday and you want to talk about something that's on Tuesday in two day, would you say it's "next week"? I’d say that’s “this Tuesday” or “this week”, with “next Tuesday” being nine days away and “next week” starting the upcoming Sunday.
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redleader posted:was there a process for obsoleting plants/animals/farm tools/minerals? should we still be contemplating the plow instead of the combine harvester? The magic of it staying the day of the plow is that you’re free to contemplate the Wurzels whenever you want.
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Saladman posted:7 in overseas France (DROM)? Départements et régions d’outre-mer. But I agree with all the folks who just say add fries to something wrapped in pide and it’s better than a tacos. A tortilla is thin enough already that when pressed in a panini press it just doesn’t stand up to chunky ingredients like fries or the bigger hunks of shawarma meat.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:New game show where teams race across the US but they have to stick to a randomly chosen line of latitude Geowizard hits the big time
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nimby posted:I've sometimes wondered why we don't built a big new train station outside Brussels, with the existing tracks into Brussels being used for shuttle trains from that new station into the current ones. What’s the central Belgian equivalent of sugar beet fields? Gare des anciens puits de mine?
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OddObserver posted:Doesn't French have something equivalent, or is it just fiction that French teachers use to make you think you may have had to memorize even more verb forms? French has a fetishistic attraction to the past participle, yes. In its most formal written uses you’ll still occasionally find other forms used, but even in everyday writing you won’t see the actual past tense.
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Femtosecond posted:I wonder what the state of medical care was in Japan versus Europe at that time. If there was a gap and the Portuguese were able to show up and fix a bunch of regular people's intractable medical problems that could be the sort of thing that shakes foundations. Can’t speak to the very early Portuguese specifically, but during the Tokugawa closed period, Dutch medical books were some of the few western books permitted in Japan, and the whole field of western science was, in shorthand, “Dutch knowledge,” so I’d say the comparison was very much in Europe’s favour.
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