Interesting Maps

Pherekydes

Nicht verstehen.

cnocbui

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Bulldust!

mikhail

Pherekydes wrote: »

Nicht verstehen.

"A continent is growing together"
Swearwords from various languages. I guess it's the very tongue-in-cheek end of euro-scepticism.

Oh, and near as I can make it out, the Greek one transliterates as skata, so I guess it's a cognate with "scat".

Finnish one means sh1t, so does merde AFAIK

Gaoth Laidir

I find that Italians will almost always use "Cazzo!" or "Cacchio" instead. I've never actually heard one use "merda".

Mullinabreena

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

I find that Italians will almost always use "Cazzo!" or "Cacchio" instead. I've never actually heard one use "merda".

It depends where in the country the Italian is from because of the different dialects. Someone from Napoli may struggle to understand someone from Genoa. So naturally different insults. You'll see at football matches the ultras on the curvas will have banners or scarves with Roma merda etc but the most common insult chant on the curva would be Roma Roma vaffanculo!!! Which means Roma Roma f**k off.

Professor Moriarty

Interesting that the Romanian word for sh1t is 'cacat'. Obviously derived from cac which is sh1t as Gaeilge.

KevRossi

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Interesting that the Romanian word for sh1t is 'cacat'. Obviously derived from cac which is sh1t as Gaeilge.

German's use 'kacke' for shlt, as well as scheisse.

Scheisse is more a swear word these days and kacke more used for 'having a crap', but they are interchangeable.

French use 'caca' as we would use 'poo' (or 'poop' of you're from D4).

silliussoddius

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Interesting that the Romanian word for sh1t is 'cacat'. Obviously derived from cac which is sh1t as Gaeilge.

The Latin word is caco, probably the origin of the Celtic and Romance words share a similar latrine.
https://www.wordsense.eu/cac/

Professor Moriarty

KevRossi wrote: »

German's use 'kacke' for ****, as well as scheisse.

Scheisse is more a swear word these days and kacke more used for 'having a ****', but they are interchangeable.

French use 'caca' as we would use 'poo' (or 'poop' of you're from D4).

Amazing how influential and widespread Gaeilge became over the millennia.

Fake Scores

Some linguists would link those toa proto-indoeuropean root word kaka/kakka - to defecate. Celtic and romance language branches.

Professor Moriarty

silliussoddius wrote: »

The Latin word is caco, probably the origin of the Celtic and Romance words share a similar latrine.
https://www.wordsense.eu/cac/

Apparently cac comes from Old Irish - caccaid which means 'excretes'.

magicbastarder

not a map, but an interesting infographic.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/

Pherekydes

mikhail wrote: »

"A continent is growing together"
Swearwords from various languages. I guess it's the very tongue-in-cheek end of euro-scepticism.

Oh, and near as I can make it out, the Greek one transliterates as skata, so I guess it's a cognate with "scat".

I guessed they were mostly words for sh1t, except the English language ones. I mean, who uses feck?

Professor Moriarty

Pherekydes wrote: »

I guessed they were mostly words for sh1t, except the English language ones. I mean, who uses feck?

Father Jack.

Gaoth Laidir

Mullinabreena wrote: »

It depends where in the country the Italian is from because of the different dialects. Someone from Napoli may struggle to understand someone from Genoa. So naturally different insults. You'll see at football matches the ultras on the curvas will have banners or scarves with Roma merda etc but the most common insult chant on the curva would be Roma Roma vaffanculo!!! Which means Roma Roma f**k off.

What I'm talking about is in cases where we"d use "****! or "FFS!" as an expletive, the way Father Jack would use "Feck!". Yes, merda is of course used, but not so much in that scenario.

Vaffanculo is used to tell someone to f off, not really as an expletive.

josip

I thought Poutain was more common in France ?

Flying Abruptly

Putain is considered stronger than merde, combining them is putain de merde, which is saved for the worst case scenarios

The kid friendly versions of these you often hear are puree (=mashed potatoes) or mercedi (=wedensday).

magicbastarder

i suspect there are a few ifs, buts and maybes here:

https://twitter.com/TheBigDataStats/status/1388975303691628547

Charles Babbage

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

It also runs pretty much straight down the middle of this 7 a side pitch, which brings a whole new meaning to the term "intercounty match".

About two thirds of Pairc Esler, the Down GAA HQ, is in county Armagh. This arose because the river was straightened and some land reclaimed in the 18th century and the stadium is built on this reclaimed land.

ohnonotgmail

magicbastarder wrote: »

i suspect there are a few ifs, buts and maybes here:

https://twitter.com/TheBigDataStats/status/1388975303691628547

all that map shows is that the french are massive liars.

Charles Babbage

Territory held by Germany at end of the war when they surrendered in 1945.

ohnonotgmail

In what way was Finland "held" by Germany?

blackwhite

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

In what way was Finland "held" by Germany?

I'm guessing the map is showing all areas that were at one time or another Axis-controlled during WW2. Finland allied with Germany to fight the Soviets until 1944.

Southern Italy & Sicily are portrayed in similar manner, despite never having been held by the Germans.

magicbastarder

magicbastarder wrote: »

i suspect there are a few ifs, buts and maybes here:

https://twitter.com/TheBigDataStats/status/1388975303691628547

The Greeks living off past glories. Plato, Socrates etc... Almost as bad as us claiming credit for Fionn Mac Cumhaill building the Giant's causeway. Almost.

Skylinehead

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

In what way was Finland "held" by Germany?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War

Fair number of them up there, even after Finland removed their support.

ohnonotgmail

Skylinehead wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War

Fair number of them up there, even after Finland removed their support.

the map legend says "Besetzte" which means occupied. In no way did germany occupy Finland.

Skylinehead

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

the map legend says "Besetzte" which means occupied. In no way did germany occupy Finland.

They were in Northern Finland. Finland declared war on Germany. Those 200,000 troops had to be somewhere in Finland, ergo they were occupying it.

In any case the map just seems to be "Axis-controlled" areas at some point, as the Germans never controlled Southern Italy for example.

Sky King

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Reminds me of one of my favourite quiz questions when I was younger:

What's the first country you hit of you travel due south from Detroit?

Yes, or if you're going from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama canal, are you travelling east to west or west to east?

It's counter-intuitively west to east.

ohnonotgmail

Skylinehead wrote: »

They were in Northern Finland. Finland declared war on Germany. Those 200,000 troops had to be somewhere in Finland, ergo they were occupying it.

In any case the map just seems to be "Axis-controlled" areas at some point, as the Germans never controlled Southern Italy for example.

I'm aware of the history thanks. There is no way that the german troops in finland could be said to be occupying the country. would you say that the 1.6m US troops in Britain duriing WW2 were occupying the country?