Spyke
xeekeireply
lemm.ee

Reddit traditions live on on Lemmy.

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Making that joke about jakubmarian.com maps.

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sopuli.xyz

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.

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lemmy.world

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

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feddit.it

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

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

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fedia.io

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

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Thorry84reply
feddit.nl

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?

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zoutreply
fedia.io

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!

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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.

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Sylvartasreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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zoutreply
fedia.io

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.

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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

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fedia.io

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

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Horseyreply
lemmy.world

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.

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Drusasreply
fedia.io

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

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Soulgreply
sh.itjust.works

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

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

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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

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

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

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