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[Travel] Interesting maps
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Anger
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- Jul 21, 2017
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How does the rest of the World look?
Eh? I'm pretty sure that the French for finger is 'doigt', and the French for toe is 'orteil'. According to the map in French a toe should be something like 'doigt du pied'. Pretty sure I've never heard it called that, but I'm not fluent and stand to be corrected.
EDIT: Yes, google translate seems to agree with me!
cloud
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That would make sense, Toe is a Norse word/idea and the vikings travelled to France quite as lot, though mainly the north. Could be different in the south of France.
papachris
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In Estonia
where I live now it confused me at first because I knew the word for leg is jalg. But the game that we all know and love is called jalgpall. Turns out that a foot is just part of the leg
There was another version of the map where France was red and blue stripes so I guess it's regional
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On the same latitude.
I can't find a map but my little robot friend suggests most languages have separate words
Fair enough, I did say I wasn't fluent!
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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Thanks, just saw it as you posted on the other thread.
You'll notice the intervals on the shading are seemingly totally random, going
0-57
57-101
101-182
182-508
508-20924
It's not quite meaningless, but it's not far off. Most of those areas in England that appear quite densely populated on there are basically just miles of empty fields - you're not going to tell me that Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire are notably densely populated.
If you think the Highlands are empty, try renting a flat in Inverness.
papachris
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You can see that in Estonia where I live nearly everyone is in Tallinn
The Spanish interior is empty. So many abandoned and practically abandoned villages. Lots of city folk own a place in their ancestral village that they go back at weekends/holiday etc. You'd think with the rise of homeworking more people will return to village life but it's not happening yet.
A couple of years ago somebody offered me a little house in a village about 45 mins from here for 10k euros! It needed a bit of work but was livable. I was tempted but lack of cash, lack of car, and lack of spousal enthusiasm scuppered it
- Aug 8, 2005
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nah that's poop.
32 bowel movements per week? What? I get some people have issues but surely "normal" or "average" can't be more than 1-2 times a day, 7-14 times a week?
32!
No wonder the citizens of the former republic of Yugoslavia are so irritable and intolerant of one another
That is a delightful confabulation. Whoever made up those numbers should win a prize
2 a week's a lot more plausible than four and a half a day
Are you suggesting that German's don't shit 6.5times a day?No wonder the citizens of the former republic of Yugoslavia are so irritable and intolerant of one another
That is a delightful confabulation. Whoever made up those numbers should win a prize
I can understand it with the French. Their lunches can drag on for hours, with multiple courses. They probably take the same approach to shitting.