Comment on Latitudes

• kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s Spanish, no? Philadelphia in French is Philadelphie.

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  • renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    my guess is Italian, in Spanish it would have been “occidental”

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    • Martj9@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It is italian

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe so. I checked against Italian and it wasn’t that.

    Is…is the map trolling us?

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They translated “west”, but not “new”.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Right? This map is so weird.

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  • huf@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    translation of names can get pretty arbitrary. eg, which “new”-s would you translate among these: new york, new zealand, new hampshire, newfoundland?

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  • Martj9@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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• EstraDoll@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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