Fun with maps
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@HardwareGeek I know there were many, the <ph> is just the most obvious example.
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@Gurth looks like the history is because neither Latin nor Greek are roots of Irish and it’s just the product of them trying to adapt.
Seems to explain it pretty well. I hope this points to the right answer by David Cameron Staples.
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@Arantor … so it turns out it's not crazy at all, just unusual.
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@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
it's not crazy at all
After all, it's still Irish.
Crazy and unusual
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I'll let you pick the / / , there are quite a few.
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@remi said in Fun with maps:
I'll let you pick the / / , there are quite a few.
Laos is perfectly mediocre at literally everything. "Gay porn" is a gastronomic category (it's probably mainly oral, so I'll allow it). "Least police" is somehow considered bad. It should clearly be Potassium for Kazakhstan. And Chad having the healthiest diet?
Obviously, duh.
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@Gern_Blaanston It's good that I get a second pee pee after about 40 hours, but holding a poo poo for 80 hours would probably be... quite painful in the end.
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@dcon What’s confusing about it? If you’re ever lost there, just keep heading north and you will get to the nearest sea.
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@Gurth I hear it's a pretty cool place to be this time of the year.
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@izzion obviously New Zealand is what's left when the cat pushed Australia off the table and then went elsewhere because there wasn't anything left worth playing with.
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Socially acceptable states to name your child after
Then again, "Tasmania" is just fine compared to names you find in the US.
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@LaoC said in Fun with maps:
Socially acceptable state
sto name your child afterSocially acceptable states and territories to name your child after
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@LaoC In the US, we have states named for Spanish adjectives: mountainous, snowy, flowery, and red.
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC In the US, we have states named for Spanish adjectives: mountainous, snowy, flowery, and red.
You guys also name your Kids Hunter, Willow, Grimes, or X Æ A-12⁰.
Meanwhile in NZ: "My friends are Dallas and her sister Dynasty. They also have a sister called Falcon Crest. Father's brothers and sisters are Faenza, Tunisia, Libya, and Michael Jackson."
⁰ The perpetrator of the latter also thinks "Nevada" made a good boy's name and is completely puzzled by his kids' gender issues
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@LaoC said in Fun with maps:
Nevada
Too much Indian influence? There, a short
a
is a male ending, longa
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are female.
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@LaoC said in Fun with maps:
completely puzzled by his kids' gender issues
I remember some years ago, I saw a news report about something or other on Dutch TV, in which was a young woman named (according to the title) Beau
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@Gurth Would you prefer
Belle du Jour
?
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@BernieTheBernie My immediate thought when I saw the name was that her parents had aimed for “Belle” and missed. IRL, they probably meant for her to be called Bo and, as this was in Holland, are ignorant of foreign languages.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth Would you prefer
Belle du Jour
?Well, if we're talking names, an actor (who already has a daughter named Bluesy Belle) has just announced the birth of his son Brother.
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@Watson said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth Would you prefer
Belle du Jour
?Well, if we're talking names, an actor (who already has a daughter named Bluesy Belle) has just announced the birth of his son Brother.
"I know I'll hate his guts when he's a teenager so I might as well name him after my printer"
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@Watson said in Fun with maps:
@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth Would you prefer
Belle du Jour
?Well, if we're talking names, an actor (who already has a daughter named Bluesy Belle) has just announced the birth of his son Brother.
Ooh, I hope the new kid grows up and becomes a priest: Father Brother!
Recalling now when a certain ditzy celebrity named her daughter Apple, but then again, she herself is the only Gwyneth I know (and her mother is the only Blythe I'm aware of outside of literature).
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
Belle du Jour
I guess you did not get the reference:
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@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
Ooh, I hope the new kid grows up and becomes a priest: Father Brother!
Major Major Major Major, anyone?
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@Gurth Was it here I announced my idea to name a character "Ishtar Morgenstern" only to be told that Danica also means the morning star?