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[–] kamills@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure a strange name north Africa decided to use

[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit traditions live on on Lemmy.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the Reddit tradition happening here? I'm out of the loop on this one

[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Making that joke about jakubmarian.com maps.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, the good ole' switcheroo.

[–] WordBox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hold my calendar, I'm going in!

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting how many (mostly Slavic) countries adopted the Roman calendar but decided to use their own names. I would assume that in the earlier Slavic calendars the months wouldn't begin on the same days, even if they had months as such.

[–] BurnedOliveTree@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With Polish for example, we have 2 month that are currently named after Roman calendar, even thought all 12 of our months used to have their own names

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 year ago

Poland is the Iceland of calendar units

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just love how italy has 10 different way to say the same thing thanks to how different the dialects are.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

But why did they position jené over South Tyrol...? Could've fitted one more way of saying it there

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe the literal translation is oak moon.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

1526 days of Finnish on Duolingo is finally paying off!

[–] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lietuva@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've got Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in the wrong country.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eastern Ukraine and Crimea speak more Russian than Ukrainian. Zelenskyy speaks Russian natively and was in the process of learning Ukrainian when he became president.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ukrainians havingve had their culture nearly wiped out by the Soviet Union and now Russia is genocide.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While correct I don't know what that has to do with the comment you replied to.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

They speak Russian because their culture has been targeted by Russia.

[–] zout@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why on earth did they put the phonetic spelling of "januari" for northern Belgium?

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lmao Nothern Belgium.

For people wondering, this user's name is zout which is Dutch for salt. Now this could be a coincidence or the user might actually be Dutch speaking themselves, even Belgian perchance?

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm Dutch, not Belgian. I was also referring to "jannewarie" as the phonetic spelling of "januari", which is placed over parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Looks like I made an unintentional joke!

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's weird, it's the Limburgs version of January. But it's weird to include a local dialect instead of only primary languages. And if Limburgs is included, why not Frysk as well?

It's a weird map.

[–] Nounka@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Jannewoore is also used phonetic.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's the Netherlands, or I need more coffee.

It appears that there's not anything on Belgium actually, probably because the wallons use the french word and I assume the flemings use the dutch word

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

Belgium has "jannewarie" for the Flemish part, and "djanvi" for the Wallon part (I could have been more clear on that). It seems this map mixes official language spellings with phonetic dialect spellings.

[–] Lizardqueen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It could be Low German?

[–] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

That's the Netherlands

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wild to not include the second big swedish lake lmao, it's like a map of the US just randomly not including lakes erie and ontario

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Shouldn't Poland be light blue, like the stripes in Belarus? Doesn't seem to match the rest of the green areas.

[–] Zahtu@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago

"am Faoilleach" - you now have convinced me, that the Scotts are secretly elvish people

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am kinda sad we stopped using the old mpnth names in Slovenian. They were kinda cool.