Virginia Occidentale has a nice ring to it. It''d fuck up John Denver too.
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call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Why… why is Philadelphia spelled with an “F”?
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 month ago
The meme maker was threatened with a cease and decist order by Kraft-Heinz.
Kefla@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Why would you spell it with a ph?
Robbsen1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Because thats how it is pronounced
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
It’s translated into French it looks like.
Did you not notice “Virginia Occidental”?
kungen@feddit.nu 1 month ago
It’s Spanish, no? Philadelphia in French is Philadelphie.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
my guess is Italian, in Spanish it would have been “occidental”
Martj9@piefed.social 1 month ago
It is italian
hansolo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Maybe so. I checked against Italian and it wasn’t that.
Is…is the map trolling us?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
They translated “west”, but not “new”.
huf@hexbear.net 1 month ago
translation of names can get pretty arbitrary. eg, which “new”-s would you translate among these: new york, new zealand, new hampshire, newfoundland?
Martj9@piefed.social 1 month ago
In Italian we said Nuova York until, let’s say, the sixties. Virginia Occidentale is quite uncommon too, I have to say. It’s more common simply West Virginia.
People used to translate more than today
hansolo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Right? This map is so weird.
EstraDoll@hexbear.net 1 month ago
It’s really fucking with me that almost everything is the exact same except for Filadelphia and Virginia Occidental. Just enough to look the same in English with like 2 tiny differences