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Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by ivm »

alephnerd wrote: post #72
rob74 wrote: post #66

On the difference of Chilean Spanish to other "dialects": > It’s the farthest region from Spain, so the least communicated to the rest of the empire, and hence the one that drifted the most from the homeland. Er... if you look at the table ( https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_... ), Chile has quite a lot of red, but actually its Spanish is closer to the Spanish from Spain than that of other S…

Chilean Spanish is heavily influenced by Spanish, German, Italian, and Croat immigrants from a pronunciation and colloquialism standpoint because those were the 4 main immigrant communities to Chile. Also, Spain Spanish is not necessarily "Standard" (Castilian) Spanish.

The main influences are Mapudungun and the Andalusian accent due to many early immigrants coming from that region. Neither German nor others were numerous enough to influence the Chilean dialect, especially in the capital (Germans and Croats mostly got lands in the south).

Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by ivm »

Izikiel43 wrote: post #206
phaser wrote: post #196

Chilean dialect of spanish is wild. Only a chilean can understand this: "el weon weon, weon."

In general, other south american countries consider chilean not spanish

The "another language" myth is extremely exaggerated, but it's not even close to be one – speaking as someone who learned Spanish in Chile.

Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by shiroiushi »

oldmariner wrote: post #217
grecy wrote: post #34

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I've been to many places around the world from the Amazon rainforest to the Atacama Desert in Chile to right around Africa. Without a shadow of a doubt, the interior of Australia is STAGGERINGLY the best for stargazing. It's not even close. This was a single 8 second exposure. [1] and I'm not a great photographer. The milky way was so bright it kept me awake in my tent. [1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CersLuLBfCz/

Can't see the pictures due to login required :-( I've been on a dark ship in the middle of the ocean and that was pretty good for stargazing, though I guess Australia might be a tiny bit better due to less reflective surface (compared to the ocean)?

>Can't see the pictures due to login required :-(

Works for me (without login). I'm not sure why, it could be uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger maybe.

Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by ivm »

golergka wrote: post #179
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #131

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That sounds like the kind of investment in the commons that a socialist would make. In 1973 the US encouraged a coup to ensure that no such investments were made ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... ). Instead, we applied guns to the affected area and ensured that they would part with their resources as "fair free-market prices" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys ). They've star…

That's why Chile is the most successful economy on the continent.

Objectively false: under the dictatorship half a country lived in extreme poverty, while the economic growth happened with the reforms of the democratic governments in the 1990-2000s.

Anything else is military coup laundering.

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flobosg wrote: post #118
Suppafly wrote: post #117

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I had to google, I'm surprised that it's 3, I would have assumed that it was just one since it's so narrow.

Everybody forgets Easter Island! (And the other one in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica region was added not long ago, 2017 IIRC.)

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Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by garof »

throwup238 wrote: post #3

My key takeaway from this article is that the best place to go see the Milky Way is deep in the Amazon rainforest… where the tree cover is nearly 100% and there isn’t a single road for a hundred miles. That’s a neat collection of graphics. I’m curious how bespoke the creation process is for each graphic or if this is something everyone just does in ArcGis or similar. That last graphic about the Western US being the o…

They make a map for this: https://www.darkskymap.com/nightSkyBrightness

For the North American peeps, check out the western part of the US.

*edit: and forecasts https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/

Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by neoyagami »

cdelsolar wrote: post #149
sidmitra wrote: post #24

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Disclaimer: I live in Chile, but not a Chilean national(nor of similar ethnicity), and certainly not a historian. The dispute is seen differently in Chile and is not as simplistic as Chile invading a port. In general i've gotten the sense that the general populace believes that Bolivia(with its secret alliance with Peru) had other intentions. >In February 1878, Bolivia increased taxes on the Chilean mining company Co…

Chilenos weones

confirmo, soy chileno

Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by tohuvavohu »

w4der wrote: post #200
throwup238 wrote: post #3

My key takeaway from this article is that the best place to go see the Milky Way is deep in the Amazon rainforest… where the tree cover is nearly 100% and there isn’t a single road for a hundred miles. That’s a neat collection of graphics. I’m curious how bespoke the creation process is for each graphic or if this is something everyone just does in ArcGis or similar. That last graphic about the Western US being the o…

Not really, that would probably be the north of Chile on the Atacama desert, there's a reason why the Extremely Large Telescope, Giant Magellan Telescope and Vera C. Rubin are being built there.

Watching this footage of the Very Large Telescope in Chile was the first time I really grasped that we're all together on a rock tumbling through the vastness of space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ

Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by colimbarna »

Phrodo_00 wrote: post #150
alephnerd wrote: post #72

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Chilean Spanish is heavily influenced by Spanish, German, Italian, and Croat immigrants from a pronunciation and colloquialism standpoint because those were the 4 main immigrant communities to Chile. Also, Spain Spanish is not necessarily "Standard" (Castilian) Spanish.

More than any of that, it's influenced by Mapuzungun in a way other countries just aren't exposed - Argentina's Conquest of the Dessert was more brutal, and is the only other modern country where Mapuche land was.

Desert, n, stress on the first syllable, means a place without much rain, but it comes from the notion of being deserted so sometimes it just means an unpopulated area.

To desert, v, stress on the second syllable, means to leave/abandon something.

Desert, n, stress on the second syllable, is what you deserve "he got his just deserts"

Dessert, n, stress on the second syllable, is a sweet course of a meal that follows the main course. It has an extra s because of its etymology not its pronunciation.

I'm quite sure this mess was designed to be as confusing as possible.

Re: Why is Chile so long?

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Post by fifilura »

usr1106 wrote: post #345
eps wrote: post #301

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Venus always appears near the sun (hence the "morning star" moniker).

If it's near the sun you cannot see it in the middle of the night (except in polar areas during summer). But why only morning and not evening?

Mornings and evenings.

It is because its path is closer to the Sun. So when looking towards it you are always partly looking towards the Sun.

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