Comment on Latitudes

• 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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