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I think Latitude historically comes first when spoken or written because of the rule of ablaut reduplication, which makes it more natural for the 'a' sound to c
by allannienhuis 5y ago
I think Latitude historically comes first when spoken or written because of the rule of ablaut reduplication, which makes it more natural for the 'a' sound to come before the 'o' sound when using phrases like this. For instance, 'bish, bash, bosh' sound natural/correct, but 'bosh, bash, bish' sounds wrong.
I get the order wrong when working with geojson with embarrassing frequency...
http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/a-hotchpotch-of-reduplication http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/a-hotchpotch-of-redup...
- gmiller123456 5y agoI doubt this holds up in other languages though.
- Miiko 5y agoCannot tell about all other languages, but it does hold up in Russian: широта (latitude) coming before долгота (longitude), 'i' before 'o'
- mongol 5y agoHow does a clock sound in other languages? In Swedish: tick tack
- eCa 5y agoTick tock.. But I’d argue it’s not the same thing. The ’tick’ sound comes first, it’s onomatopoetic.
- mongol 5y agoIs it not just the way we prefer to order it in our heads?
- Fiahil 5y agoFrench : tic tac
- albert_e 5y agoIndian: tick tick
- sundarurfriend 5y agoTamil (in India): tik tik tik Citation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik_Tik_Tik_(1981_film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik_Tik_Tik_(1981_film)
- cozzyd 5y agoIn every language I know the words are essentially the same...
- Hendrikto 5y agoIn German, they are called Längengrad and Breitengrad.
- IshKebab 5y agoWe should rename them to langitude and lotitude. Much clearer!
- jillesvangurp 5y agoThere's also the notion that determining the longitude is much harder than determining the latitude. Figuring out latitude is easy if you can measure angles to stars or the sun at noon and is something that people have been doing for quite long. Figuring out the longitude requires an accurate clock and was something that had a lot of strategic value in the seventeenth century. To the point where multiple kings and goverments at the time created rewards to incentivize scientists of the day to work on that problem.
- Gwypaas 5y agoMore importantly, it needed to be accurate even when jumbled around in a storm crossing an ocean. Which ruled out for example pendulum like clocks.
- amelius 5y agoI think we should just ask GPT-3 what is the correct order.