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[–] 59 points 2 years ago

The fuckin Scottish over’ere sidin’ with Anakin all willy nilly

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    TIL the USSR named their space station "peace"

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 2 years ago (11 children)
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    So... "world peace" is just....? Google returns a phrase that it translates back into "peace in everything," but the word does repeat in that phrase. I'm sure it's a contextual thing and I know some things just don't carry over between languages, but now I'm interested in how Russian works.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That would be мир во всем мире, literally peace in all the world

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago*

    The whole point was to get past the Cold War and make union between countries. MIR was peace; Americans and Russians working together for all mankind’s scientific progress

    Then came politics.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    Wait, hold on, a fairly accurate map instead of just countries?

    Who's the linguistics nerd that wanted to make a point about peace and empathy and the absolutely tragic loss of human life, but couldn't resisit also making a little bit of a point about language diversity? Whoever you are, I see you.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's a lot better than most such maps, but still, there's way too many languages missing in my opinion :)

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    The Finnish word on the map is in the partitive case, the base form is "rauha" with just one "a" at the end.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The Dutch ”vrede” would translate to ”wrath” in Swedish. Just fyi

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    i'm maltese. they cut us out of the map! We say "paci". pronosonced like "paa-chi"

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    All I want is some damn Fred and quiet.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    "vrede", which means "peace" in Dutch, means "anger" in Danish (probably not pronounced the same way, but the spelling is the same.)

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    May Fred be upon you.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    So that's where the name Fred comes from.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    In polish "pokój" also means literally room.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I love this type of maps. Need to see more of those.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    The Russian Mir is thought to come from the same proto Indo European root as the English "mild".

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The Germanic one looks like Freedom. Is it?

    What language family is Pokój? I thought Polish was a Slavic language, but they don't say Mir.

    Béke is Uralic? But also Turks use it?

    Where is Taika from?

    I NEED MORE INFO!!!!!!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Pokój is also Slavic. In Russian related word means something closer to "calmness" and sometimes has overlapping meaning with English "peace". Like "peace" in "peace and quite" for example will be translated with "pokoj", while "mir" in the sense of "peace" means only the opposite of "war".

    I assume colors show the original meaning of the word, not the language family.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Edit: whoops, missed your first first question. Yes, fred et al come from Proto-Germanic frithuz, which is constructed from frijaz (free) plus noun suffix -thus.

    Well as for the first second one, language families tend to have different roots for the same thing, of which different ones will become preferred in different regions. Both of these words actually work in both Russian and Polish, it is just that one of them is archaic.

    As for the second third one, I don't think they're supposed to be the same colour. As far as I know, they are unrelated.

    For your third fourth question, no clue. I might look into it someday.

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    Rauuuuuuuhaaaaa!!!!! Love it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Of course the Germans have the longest spelling. Why use four letters when you can use sixteen?

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