They translated “west”, but not “new”.
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hansolo@lemmy.today 10 months agoIt’s translated into French it looks like.
Did you not notice “Virginia Occidental”?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
huf@hexbear.net 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Right? This map is so weird.
EstraDoll@hexbear.net 10 months 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
kungen@feddit.nu 10 months ago
It’s Spanish, no? Philadelphia in French is Philadelphie.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
my guess is Italian, in Spanish it would have been “occidental”
Martj9@piefed.social 10 months ago
It is italian
hansolo@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Maybe so. I checked against Italian and it wasn’t that.
Is…is the map trolling us?