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06-13-2019, 02:28 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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Originally Posted by erimir
Yeah, some of them are the etymologies of the English names, and others are origins of the name in the indigenous language.
The map often doesn't translate the names of the "tribes". Sweden is "land of the Svear", but "Svear" has its own etymology, which is something like "our people". So, the name means something like "land/realm/kingdom of our people".
Which is a pretty common sort of meaning for endonyms (also: the etymological roots of language names often mean something like "language" or "our speech").
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The Māori language is often referred to here as "te reo" (the language). "Māori" itself just means normal and as a reference to the people dates to the post-contact era, presumably in contrast to the weird looking folk who had started turning up on the shores.
"Aotearoa" has a disputed etymology, although "long white cloud" is the one that seems to stick. It didn't originally refer to the whole country though. A translation of "New Zealand" might just be "New Sea-Land".
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08-12-2019, 04:19 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Time for some cartograms. See if you can guess what this one is before looking at the file name.
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08-12-2019, 04:24 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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08-12-2019, 08:03 PM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I don't understand the first one - or if I do then it must be wrong.
According to Wikipedia there's only 30 grams of Francium (Fr) in the whole Earth's crust at any given time: it's radioactive and decays away quickly and is only slowly produced by the radioactive decay of other elements.
Astatine (At) is even rarer.
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08-12-2019, 08:17 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Yeees ... he doesn't give any source data or methodology.
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09-15-2019, 07:24 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Turbopony is doing some interesting mapping including US states and Canadian provinces and territories. This has resulted in some interesting contrasts:
You'd think with that much booze you'd see way more Jesus.
But hey:
So either booze prevents diabetes or Jesus causes it?
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09-15-2019, 10:02 AM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Diabetes causes doubt about evolution. Survival of the fittest, yeah right.
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10-05-2019, 12:07 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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10-05-2019, 12:26 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Subreddit Map Porn, for interesting maps is a busy busy site
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10-13-2019, 11:20 PM
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puzzler
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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12-11-2019, 09:33 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Mapped: The largest employers in each US state - Matador Network
Wallmart, Insurance companies and airline related companies... we are doomed
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12-11-2019, 09:38 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
And if you do live in an area that is inhabited, Ring/Amazon probably has data on you
Ring's Neighbors Data Let Us Map Amazon's Home Surveillance Network
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12-12-2019, 04:57 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Qingdai
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Denver International Airport ... so the biggest business in Colorado is about getting out of Colorado?
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12-13-2019, 04:18 AM
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Dogehlaugher -Scrutari
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Well yes. Plus it's a hub for a couple of larger Americian airline companies.
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01-18-2020, 09:09 PM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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01-19-2020, 03:47 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
First XKCD I've actually laughed at in years.
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01-19-2020, 08:16 AM
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NPC
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
It made my country disappear. : brooding:
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02-21-2020, 07:04 AM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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02-22-2020, 06:03 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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Originally Posted by JoeP
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Was the person who drew that from Argentina? I know many Argentinos and have been there. That's their attitude.
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02-22-2020, 11:10 AM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
USA born and bred - it's Randall Munroe, of xkcd.com
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04-03-2020, 06:45 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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04-03-2020, 08:50 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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04-03-2020, 03:30 PM
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NPC
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I an sure Argentinians are as impressed by those as Finns are by the "are you Finnished" and "the "Finnish line" etc.
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06-11-2020, 08:23 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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06-11-2020, 10:09 AM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Shelled by the Royal Navy. Classy.
Kimsquit - Wikipedia
Google Maps
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