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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"am Faoilleach" - you now have convinced me, that the Scotts are secretly elvish people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Shouldn't Poland be light blue, like the stripes in Belarus? Doesn't seem to match the rest of the green areas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I am kinda sad we stopped using the old mpnth names in Slovenian. They were kinda cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

wild to not include the second big swedish lake lmao, it's like a map of the US just randomly not including lakes erie and ontario

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They've got Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in the wrong country.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eastern Ukraine and Crimea speak more Russian than Ukrainian. Zelenskyy speaks Russian natively and was in the process of learning Ukrainian when he became president.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ukrainians having had their culture nearly wiped out by the Soviet Union and now Russia is genocide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While correct I don't know what that has to do with the comment you replied to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They speak Russian because their culture has been targeted by Russia.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why on earth did they put the phonetic spelling of "januari" for northern Belgium?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao Nothern Belgium.

For people wondering, this user's name is zout which is Dutch for salt. Now this could be a coincidence or the user might actually be Dutch speaking themselves, even Belgian perchance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm Dutch, not Belgian. I was also referring to "jannewarie" as the phonetic spelling of "januari", which is placed over parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Looks like I made an unintentional joke!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Jannewoore is also used phonetic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's weird, it's the Limburgs version of January. But it's weird to include a local dialect instead of only primary languages. And if Limburgs is included, why not Frysk as well?

It's a weird map.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's the Netherlands

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It could be Low German?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's the Netherlands, or I need more coffee.

It appears that there's not anything on Belgium actually, probably because the wallons use the french word and I assume the flemings use the dutch word

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Belgium has "jannewarie" for the Flemish part, and "djanvi" for the Wallon part (I could have been more clear on that). It seems this map mixes official language spellings with phonetic dialect spellings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't think the dialect spellings are phonetic, at least not all of them. From my limited Corsican knowledge this looks the actual spelling and there's no way it would be pronounced like that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I just love how italy has 10 different way to say the same thing thanks to how different the dialects are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They even bothered to include the two variants of Sardinian :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

But why did they position jené over South Tyrol...? Could've fitted one more way of saying it there

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure a strange name north Africa decided to use

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reddit traditions live on on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's the Reddit tradition happening here? I'm out of the loop on this one

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the good ole' switcheroo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hold my calendar, I'm going in!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Making that joke about jakubmarian.com maps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe the literal translation is oak moon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

1526 days of Finnish on Duolingo is finally paying off!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting how many (mostly Slavic) countries adopted the Roman calendar but decided to use their own names. I would assume that in the earlier Slavic calendars the months wouldn't begin on the same days, even if they had months as such.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With Polish for example, we have 2 month that are currently named after Roman calendar, even thought all 12 of our months used to have their own names

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Poland is the Iceland of calendar units