[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Cutlass]

 

[madviking]

ah, the classic 'consumers of furry pornography' heatmap

 

[CavLancer]

Places where there's more red than other places?

 

[Mise]

Places that would look more red than others as seen from space during the day if everyone was wearing a red hat and standing outside on the rooftops of every building and there were no clouds and the rest of the earth's surface was covered in snow including trees and stuff.

 

[Mise]

src: http://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe/

 

[Tee Kay]

Distances not to scale T_T

 

[Tycho Brahe]

src: http://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe/

What's "BOK"? A germanic language close to swedish, danish (dsh) and norwegian (nn).

 

[JohannaK]

src: http://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe/

So what's the lexical distance from Catalan to French? And why are Provençal and Sardinian way larger than they should be?

Distances not to scale T_T

Lol so cute.
(I can't resist these smilies )

 

[metatron]

What's "BOK"? A germanic language close to swedish, danish (dsh) and norwegian (nn).

Norwegians have come up with the funny derp of having one language but two ways to write it.
Bokmål is what most Norwegians use - a kinda Danish-ish way to write Norwegian.
"Actual" Norwegian would by Nynorsk, if it wasn't for the fact that a minority in not exactly the most cosmopolitain parts of Norway (derpy conservative west) uses it.
Hence the "NN" and "BOK" in the graph.

This post contains gross superficiality for the sake of humour. If you actually, you know, care, you'll have to read up on the matter yourself.

Edit: Wait a sec. I thought you were Danish yourself. You'd be supposed to know this.

 

[Tycho Brahe]

Norwegians have come up with the funny derp of having one language but two ways to write it.
Bokmål is what most Norwegians use - a kinda Danish-ish way to write Norwegian.
"Actual" Norwegian would by Nynorsk, if it wasn't for the fact that a minority in not exactly the most cosmopolitain parts of Norway (derpy conservative west) uses it.
Hence the "NN" and "BOK" in the graph.

This post contains gross superficiality for the sake of humour. If you actually, you know, care, you'll have to read up on the matter yourself.

Edit: Wait a sec. I thought you were Danish yourself. You'd be supposed to know this.

Ah but of course. I know about nynorsk and bokmål. Doh!

 

[Yeekim]

src: http://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe/

Strange that the graph bothers to show connection between Estonian and Latvian (afaik there is somewhere around 30-40 Estonian words that have Latvian roots and maybe 100-120 that originate from some form of proto-Baltic) while ignoring around 1600-1800 Estonian words that have roots in ancient Germanic or Low or High German... Estonian has more lexical overlap with German than with Finnish.

Let's hope this only illustrates questionable scholarship as far as this tiny part of the graph goes.

 

[peter grimes]

Ah but of course. I know about nynorsk and bokmål. Doh!

Don't feel too badly - It took me a long time to figure out what FRE was - I thought I was Frisian, but it was grouped with the Italic languages??

 

[CavLancer]

Places that would look more red than others as seen from space during the day if everyone was wearing a red hat and standing outside on the rooftops of every building and there were no clouds and the rest of the earth's surface was covered in snow including trees and stuff.

The most informative chart yet posted.

 

[Mise]

Same graph, except instead of wearing hats, their corpses are piled as high as possible on a series of stakes lined up latitudinally:

 

[Monsterzuma]

Lagos is crazy; that place is going to grow like no 2moz. the tokyo of africa.

 

[madviking]

Same graph, except instead of wearing hats, their corpses are piled as high as possible on a series of stakes lined up latitudinally:

sorry mise joy division has got this map beat.

 

[madviking]

actual temperatures

air temperature anomaly

 

[JohannaK]

scale can't be right. F and C coincide at -40º, not at 0º

 

[madviking]

it's a difference

anomaly = average - actual

 

[JohannaK]

Oh, yeah, right. Sorry.