• MudMan@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    It depends. I think if both languages are exclusive to that area then yeah, flag it. If one is a larger language and the other a minority language exclusive to a region is fine to only show the minority one. Context solves the issue just fine.

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      9 months ago

      You don’t know from context what the actual language situation there is with that method. For informative maps that’d be bad. That’s why shading makes more sense.

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        9 months ago

        If your map is about where every language is spoken, then you shade where every language is spoken.

        If your map is about how a word is said on different languages, then you place words for unique languages, context takes care of bilingual areas.

        It seems pretty obvious, really.

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          9 months ago

          And what’s wrong from a more correct representation that also shows the words, as in, shading?

          To me that seems obvious. You don’t mislead but also get the information through.

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            9 months ago

            Well, because you’d have to put two words in very tiny spaces of the map. Repeating “peace” in Wales seems superfluous, since England is right there. You’ll notice you don’t get béke rewritten in Transilvania, either.

            It just seems like a weird hangup.

            Anyway, moving on here. We’ve derailed the kind, warm, little dorky message of this thread enough.

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              9 months ago

              I’m not sure why you’d have to repeat the word.

              It just seems like a weird hangup.

              It’s just an unfortunate and misleading trend. But if you’ve ever been to MapPorn on Reddit, then yeah it’s not the most egregious example of those hah.