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I used ChatGPT (because no access to bard :) ) to convert their 180 country names to 3-letter codes and generate a world map showing where it's available: http
by thijser 3y ago
I used ChatGPT (because no access to bard :) ) to convert their 180 country names to 3-letter codes and generate a world map showing where it's available:
https://twitter.com/thijser/status/1656943947556569090 https://twitter.com/thijser/status/1656943947556569090
Definitely not what I had expected with "180 countries"
- belter 3y agoAlways assumed Canada had a kind of European flavor to it. Thanks Google for confirming it...
- bartislartfast 3y agoWell they do speak French
- aerhardt 3y agoAnd English!
- johannes1234321 3y agoBut (almost) no German. The most spoken (native) language in Europe.
- bartislartfast 3y agowow, I did not know that! other fun fact I learned from wikipedia - "German-Americans make up the largest self-reported ancestry group within the United States accounting for roughly 49 million people and approximately 17% of the population of the US"
- lolinder 3y agoAccording to Wikipedia (and unsurprisingly), that's technically Russian. Western Europe, perhaps? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_speakers_in_Europe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_...
- johannes1234321 3y agoThanks for correction. I was under the assumption Russian was second.
- contingencies 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
- letqin 3y agoThey for sure do, they spell a lot of words different as they use the French spelling. Like neighbour and favour.
- rscho 3y agoI didn't know english and french were only a single letter apart in some cases. Is there a common root of some kind?
- lycopodiopsida 3y ago> Is there a common root of some kind? Yes, the common root is french, as in "Normans" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans
- shagie 3y agoOne of the neat linguistic things still in English from the Norman conquest - the word for the meat in English (which is traced back to German) is often the word for the animal in French. Meat from cattle is beef. Steer in French is beof ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beef https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beef : From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) ) Meat from a chicken is poultry. Chicken is poulet in French. ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poultry https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poultry : From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pullus (“chick”). ) Meat from a swine is pork. The word for swine in French is porc. ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pork https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pork From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).) This is because when the normans (who were the rulers at the time) wanted poulet on the table, they didn't want a live chicken - they wanted a cooked chicken and so the word the meat and the animal diverged in English. There are also some interesting Spanish / Arabic word pairs from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Spain where the word in Spanish differs from the romance side of the family tree.
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]
- newswasboring 3y agoWeird that its not available in Brazil. Thats a big market, no?
- dlisboa 3y agoGoogle has been at odds with Brazil's judicial system, likely doesn't want to add more controversial fuel to the fire.
- ElectricalUnion 3y agoBrazil implements a local copy of GDPR, "LGPD".
- anticensor 3y agoSo does Turkey with KVKK, but Bard is available in Turkey. There must be something else.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoApparently it's 180 Countries and regions. So every little island is included, even if it's not a separate country. Someone at Google finally learned marketing I guess.
- singularity2001 3y ago>> Someone at Google finally learned marketing I guess. not sure if it's good marketing though. the first impression of disappointment and annoyance (and lack of veracity) might stick.
- pellucidar 3y agoThat’s their brand. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
- robjan 3y ago"Regions" is used so that it captures disputed territories such as Taiwan (TWN) and semi-autonomous regions which have country codes but aren't countries e.g Hong Kong (HKG) and Macau (MAC). You will notice that most airlines and international companies now refer to country dropdowns as region dropdowns, primarily to satisfy the Chinese government.
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