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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Choose Your Own
@LaoC said in Fun with maps:
Socially acceptable state
sto name your child afterSocially acceptable states and territories to name your child after
:spanner:
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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
ori
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?
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@Zecc Heh, and it’s not even a lazy map data maintainer, as I kind of suspected.
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@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
@Zecc Heh, and it’s not even a lazy map data maintainer, as I kind of suspected.
It probably is. You've been able to submit random BS POIs to Google Maps for a few years now and they'll happily display them. Given their opaque processes there's also no way to ever get then removed unless the name says "Penis".
Even less so when a place gets good reviews:
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@LaoC The are also marked on Wikimapia (Another Lake, And Another Lake, unlike even the more plausibly named “John's Lake” to the west, but no references or anything, so it might still be some joker adding the name on various maps.
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@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC The are also marked on Wikimapia (Another Lake, And Another Lake, unlike even the more plausibly named “John's Lake” to the west, but no references or anything, so it might still be some joker adding the name on various maps.
ICBW but I was under the impression Wikimapia just pulled features from OSM ad added the ability to attach extra info to it.
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@LaoC I'm not sure whether there is a function to pull the shape off openstreetmap (many of the annotation shapes are quite crude), but in either case it only shows the shapes that someone cared to annotate. So someone had to explicitly add these two annotations—of which the first is empty except for the title and the second says “It's real name!”.
… the reason why I went to look there was to see whether anybody bothered to dig up the history behind those names, but nobody did.
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They do seem to be the genuine names. Somebody on Reddit also noticed these lake names, and there is a comment there that reads:
I checked BC GeoNames to see if either has name origin notes, which BC GeoNames sometimes provides for place names. And it does for these! Though not too much:
For Another Lake:
Originally submitted in 1968 with names for 92 H/16. "This is not a satisfactory name, and it won't be used on [BC topo maps]..." however long-standing local usage was confirmed in 1990 by Conservation Officer, Kelowna, and by brothers Robin and Bob Gold who have lived nearby for 50 years; the name "Another Lake" was in use when they first visited the area in 1946.
For And Another Lake:
Adopted 13 December 1991 on 92H/16; the long standing local name according to conservation officer, Kelowna. Confirmed by brothers Robin and Robert Gold who have lived nearby for 50 years. Name was in use when they first visited the area in 1946. Not to be confused with "Another Lake" which is southwest of this here.
Both names were officially adopted in 1991, apparently after the province was like "What? No, don't be silly. ...really? That long? Well, okay, fine, I guess."
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New episode of Map Men out, trying to count the amount of countries in the world this time:
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
Not really related to the above at all, but Iceland apparently also issues passports on request in which the father’s “surname” appears for all members of a family, to avoid foreign immigration officials thinking that they might be dealing with kidnappers or something (“Man called Jónsson, woman called Porsdóttir, a supposed child of theirs called Bjørnsson …? Time to call in reinforcements.”)
Or just refuse to give shared room in hotels for pairs that are obviously not married (due to not having the same surname).
Used to be actually quite common and especially in Switzerland there were reportedly very strict about that and applied this rule even for people with gendered surnames - even if the difference is literarily just a single letter (like in Russian).
I know a (married) couple named Craig and Lauri. They had some trouble in France (IIRC) at a hotel that wouldn't allow them a room with one bed, because in France (or wherever), "Lauri" is a male name. The clerk was quite surprised and had to call in all his coworkers to show them that there really was a woman named "Lauri."
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@djls45 said in Fun with maps:
I know a (married) couple named Craig and Lauri. They had some trouble in France (IIRC) at a hotel that wouldn't allow them a room with one bed, because in France (or wherever), "Lauri" is a male name. The clerk was quite surprised and had to call in all his coworkers to show them that there really was a woman named "Lauri."
I doubt this was in France, because:
- In French, "Laurie" (silent "e") is a female name.
- Unless it happened a really long time ago, hotels here don't care who you are sleeping with. In fact, they know that a non-negligible percentage of their clients who share a room are not married to each other, so they don't ask potentially embarrassing questions.
This would be more likely in, maybe, Poland?
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@Zerosquare said in Fun with maps:
they know that a non-negligible percentage of their clients who share a room are not married to each other
Like the "no non-registered guests beyond this sign" signboards in some thai hotels. Which actually tell you what do with your girlfriend of tonight: register her at the reception. Also for your safety.