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Re: Wrong Map of Europe

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post #39

Can I guess it's AI-generated? It has the same forced-to-BS-beyond-real-knowledge feel. It gets most of the outlines right-ish, but just hallucinates a bunch of other stuff.

Very unlikely. Many mistakes are small jokes. Norway, for example, has cities named Nynorsk and Bokmål, which are actually the names of two different standards of Norwegian language. Ukraine has a city named Salo, an obvious reference to salo the food. Denmark's capital is called Legoland on the map and located roughly where Billund is (the town with Legoland).

> Norway, for example, has cities named Nynorsk and Bokmål, which are actually the names of two different standards of Norwegian language.

Not only that but the official written languagein the cities named Bokmål and Nynorsk are exactly that, respectively.

Re: Wrong Map of Europe

#42
Stalingrad (now Volgograd) looks to be where Kursk is.

Gulf of Finland is marked as "Gulf of Sweden".

But Koskenkorva is actually a town.

Carthago is Carthage in English, the state which existed in present day Tunisia from which Hannibal sailed and crossed the alps on elephants. Carthage was later destroyed by the romans.

Re: Wrong Map of Europe

#44
More errors for France:

- Beaujolais is in place of Lyon. Beaujolais is a wine region just north of it.

- "Tolose" is actually spelled "Toulouse"

- "Anduoillette" is actually Bordeaux. "Andouillette" (without the typo) is a pork sausage made from intestines. Typically french, but the region most associated with this food is in the opposite of the country, in the North-East.

- "Marsupial" is Marseille

Re: Wrong Map of Europe

#45
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting - I wonder if it was used as a knowledge test. Everywhere you dig in on the map has inside jokes, plus small and large problems.

The original map doesn't have the jokes, only the modified version in TFA does.

Well then, never mind! :)
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