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I'm a little weirded out that languages are plotted on a map. Where does English go? Or French? Or are these just plotted everywhere that language is spoken? (P
by sverhagen 3y ago
I'm a little weirded out that languages are plotted on a map. Where does English go? Or French? Or are these just plotted everywhere that language is spoken? (Probably not.) It reminded me of a hill I chose to (not really) die on, a long time ago, where the product folks in my organization were dead-set on indicating the language choice with a (country) flag. Not sure if we ever set on what flag to use for English (it was probably configurable). And the flag for Dutch was a weird abomination between the Dutch and Belgian flag. Weirdly, the French flag was used for French, while Belgium probably speaks as much French as they do Dutch (so why wasn't there a French/Belgian abomination too).
- meepmorp 3y agoGood point! Their dataset seems to have locations associated with the languages: https://grambank.clld.org/languages#map https://grambank.clld.org/languages#map spoiler: English goes in England, French goes in France
- eru 3y agoI like the little joke post that had a menu that let you choose between 'Traditional' and 'Simplified English'.
- sverhagen 3y agoNot to get entirely off topic here, but I heard a guest on the Dutch national radio this morning make a recommendation to all the Dutch folks coming back from vacation in France around this time, to prolong the vacation vibe by tuning in to the "français facile" radio station, with presumably a less waterfall-like experience of listening to the news in French, so that they now could finally understand what was being said.
- goodbyesf 3y ago[flagged]