Fun with maps
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
English, you're drunk.
That's like saying @Polygeekery is slightly interested by firearms.
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
Sequim (pronounced "squim").
EnglishKlallam, you're drunk.FTFY.
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@Zerosquare said in Fun with maps:
@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
English, you're drunk.
That's like saying @Polygeekery is slightly interested by firearms.
English is riding the bender and it's never gonna sober up.
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
Sequim (pronounced "squim").
EnglishKlallam, you're drunk.FTFY.
That name predates humanity, like many place names in Washington - not a great example.
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
EnglishKlallam, you're drunk.FTFY.
I'd say whoever transliterated the Klallam place names into English orthography was drunk — or dyslexic. Don't even get me started on Puyallup. (It's pronounced as though it was spelled Pyuallup.)
TIL Klallam rivals Polish in its use of diacritics
The following is a list of all of the letters of the Klallam alphabet shown in their alphabetical order:
ʔ a c c̕ č č̕ e ə h i k kʷ k̕ʷ l ɬ ƛ̕ m m̕ n n̕ ŋ ŋ̕ p p̕ q q̕ qʷ q̕ʷ s š t t̕ u w w̕ xʷ x̣ x̣ʷ y y̕and disdain for vowels. ɬq̕čšɬšáʔ is a fairly common word (fifty) with only one vowel among all those consonants.
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@Zerosquare that's the worst spelling of "and did you hear?" I've ever seen. Could be a phonetic transcription of a drunk.
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@Gustav said in Fun with maps:
@Zerosquare that's the worst spelling of "and did you hear?" I've ever seen. Could be a phonetic transcription of a drunk.
So, Standard Polish then?
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Caption: US states but the first letter is missing.
I think they'd make fairly decent "generic fantasy culture/nation" names.
Except Ew Hampshire.
And @GuyWhoKilledBear's law is still undefeated: Boston is in Assachusestts.
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@Benjamin-Hall What state lies between Ississippi and Eorgia?
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@Benjamin-Hall What state lies between Ississippi and Eorgia?
Alabama. That's a nice subtle joke. I missed it there.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Fun with maps:
I think they'd make fairly decent "generic fantasy culture/nation" names.
Reverse them, they’ll be much harder to recognise then.
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@Gurth
Yeah, but who wants their main hero to be from Sttsesuhcassa?
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@izzion said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth
Yeah, but who wants their main hero to be from Sttsesuhcassa?Everything from there elbirret.
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@loopback0 I am somehow intrigued by the northern bit of Norway.
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@robo2 No women found, only reindeer.
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@robo2 Angry viking women with bearded axes (and don't mix that up!)
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@loopback0 yonder Illinois road appears to go by way of Cairo.
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
elbirret
Close enough.
"The grid bug flees! The invisible Demogorgon bites! The invisible Demogorgon bites! The invisible Demogorgon stings! The kitten flees!"
But remember, the power of the Valar extends only so far.
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@dcon I'd take issue with some of those. In particular, the label "WILDFIRES" should not cover just the Los Padres and Angeles National Forests; it should cover the entire state, except the areas labeled "HOT" and "NOTHING", because there's nothing there to burn. I'd also add labels for "ORANGE TREES" around Riverside, "FUTURE ENGINEERS" for San Luis Obispo, and "TRI-TIP" for Santa Maria, but the latter two probably just label me as a (former) local.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
I'd also add labels for "ORANGE TREES" around Riverside
Those are mostly gone these days.
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@HardwareGeek The only two famous engineering students I know from SLO Town are Billy Barty and Weird Al Yankovic. (I wonder if they bonded over that bit of shared background when they worked on the movie "UHF" together.)
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
famous engineering students
I didn't say the engineering students were, or would ever be, famous, but if SLO has anything of note, it's the university.
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@HardwareGeek How about the waterfall urinal at the Madonna Inn?
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From a tweet titled: Map of ancient Grease.
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@loopback0 And Chukotka is missing (the part of Russia east of 180° east).
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
Chukotka
Two Chukchi have found a tin of coffee.
One of them says, "Look, this is kofe. That's what the rich city folk have. Let's try it!"
The other says, "Ok, but let's be careful. You read the instructions on the can and I'll do that."
So the first starts to read, "Step one - pour one spoon of coffee".
And the other one takes a spoonful of coffee from the tin and pours it in his mouth.
The first one reads further, "Step two - add some sugar if you like".
The other one takes a spoonful of sugar and pours it in his mouth.
"Step three - pour boiling water over it and..."
The first one spits it all out and gets angry:
"Ptfu, sadists, they're really trying to kill us off, aren't they?"
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@loopback0 TIL I learned about the seas on Russia and Canada's western borders.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I read many books by the Chukchi writer Yuri Rytkheu. So I know about Chukchi jokes - can be much odder than your joke.
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@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
@loopback0 TIL I learned about the seas on Russia and Canada's western borders.
On the sides of the Bering Street are Chukotka (part of russia) and Alaska (part of the USA), but not canada...
By the way, native people there used to cross the Bering Street on primitive boats, or during winter on sledges drawn by dogs.
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@BernieTheBernie Look at @loopback0's map again.
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@PleegWat I'm more impressed by the Byelorussian transcontinental seaway.
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@dkf I think we're talking about the same thing. It's difficult to pin a name on it.
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@PleegWat Ah, but Russia really does have a western sea coast, and has done for centuries. St Petersburg's on it.
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@PleegWat I'm more impressed by the Byelorussian transcontinental seaway.
And Finland is safe from being invaded by russia on land.
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@PleegWat Ah, but Russia really does have a western sea coast, and has done for centuries. St Petersburg's on it.
Until we in Sweden decide to reclaim Ingria. I mean, it makes more historical sense than Russia's Ukraine claims, so...
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@Atazhaia You'll probably want to get back Österbotten first.
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@dkf The goal would be to reclaim all of the Swedish Empire. Also, if we include New Sweden it means Sweden could claim the city where the USA was founded!
I see no problems with this plan.
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