• nelson@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    So the Flemish part of Belgium has “tenen”, which is not toefinger. The french have “orteils”, which is also not fingers of the foot( finger is doigt ).

    So the map is at least wrong for those two countries.

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      10 hours ago

      Real funny they coloured it differently, because Flanders literally shares a language with The Netherlands.

      To be fair half the world seems to forget Belgium is not all french sometimes, or puts french as the default even though Flanders’ population is almost twice as large as Wallonie. Even adding the population of Brussels and Wallonie, Flanders still has the larger population. (Numbers for stats come from statbel)

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        9 hours ago

        Either way if you ignore regional languages you’re not doing linguistics. And the author could not even get it right for national languages, if we even accept that arbitrarily picking one makes any sense.

        This map is a masterclass in what not to do and it almost feels like intentional engagement farming.