maps and liniguistics, (now my master cool maps thread)

[bucket]

https://twitter.com/aVERYhotwoman/status/1478381725185105924

[ben ji]

https://twitter.com/aVERYhotwoman/status/1478381725185105924

Nice

[mocat]

Holy crap

[michigancat]

hahaha

[michigancat]

[steve dave]

every state getting two senators is so absurd, lmao

[MakeItRain]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-common-language-spoken-in-the-u-s-map/

[michigancat]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-common-language-spoken-in-the-u-s-map/

Cantonese and Mandarin are different! Also surprised there's more people speaking German than some other languages in Iowa given the meat packing industry. Does that seem right to you?

[Katpappy]

Farmers and Mennonites/Amish.

[michigancat]

Farmers and Mennonites/Amish.

I'm shocked that would outnumber immigrants in meat packing

[Spracne]

Farmers and Mennonites/Amish.

I'm shocked that would outnumber immigrants in meat packing

Spanish is excluded. What language would you have guessed for Iowa?

[steve dave]

Yeah, obviously it would be Spanish for like 45+ states

[steve dave]

I’m surprised it’s not German for ks actually. Lots of German mennonites in ks. Tons of people in Meade speak German or some weird Mennonite dialect that is German adjace. Forget the name of it.

[Spracne]

I’m surprised it’s not German for ks actually. Lots of German mennonites in ks. Tons of people in Meade speak German or some weird Mennonite dialect that is German adjace. Forget the name of it.

Pennsylvania Dutch?

[CHONGS]

I’m surprised it’s not German for ks actually. Lots of German mennonites in ks. Tons of people in Meade speak German or some weird Mennonite dialect that is German adjace. Forget the name of it.

Universities

[steve dave]

I’m surprised it’s not German for ks actually. Lots of German mennonites in ks. Tons of people in Meade speak German or some weird Mennonite dialect that is German adjace. Forget the name of it.

Pennsylvania Dutch?

Maybe the same thing but this one I think. I do a pretty great version of old farmers who speak English but with a super heavy accents of the stuff from being around it all the time. Also they always sound like they’re yelling but apparently it’s just how it sounds normally. Really blurt out the “AL” sounds in everything and draw out the L part really far.

[Spracne]

I’m surprised it’s not German for ks actually. Lots of German mennonites in ks. Tons of people in Meade speak German or some weird Mennonite dialect that is German adjace. Forget the name of it.

Pennsylvania Dutch?

Maybe the same thing but this one I think. I do a pretty great version of old farmers who speak English but with a super heavy accents of the stuff from being around it all the time. Also they always sound like they’re yelling but apparently it’s just how it sounds normally. Really blurt out the “AL” sounds in everything and draw out the L part really far.

It's probably that most speakers have adopted English as their primary language and thus are considered "English speakers" rather than "Plautdietsch speakers"

[michigancat]

Farmers and Mennonites/Amish.

I'm shocked that would outnumber immigrants in meat packing

Spanish is excluded. What language would you have guessed for Iowa?

Mandarin or Vietnamese or Hmong or something.

https://www.epi.org/blog/meat-and-poultry-worker-demographics/

I knew Mennonites in rural Kansas but never knew anyone that spoke German

[Katpappy]

I’m surprised it’s not German for ks actually. Lots of German mennonites in ks. Tons of people in Meade speak German or some weird Mennonite dialect that is German adjace. Forget the name of it.

Pennsylvania Dutch?

Maybe the same thing but this one I think. I do a pretty great version of old farmers who speak English but with a super heavy accents of the stuff from being around it all the time. Also they always sound like they’re yelling but apparently it’s just how it sounds normally. Really blurt out the “AL” sounds in everything and draw out the L part really far.

I heard the word Pig Latin for the Volga germans.  My folks spoke this language and did not understand the Germans on the news during the fall of the Berlin Wall during the '80s, because they said it was a different type of German language.

Here a google answer:
The Volga Germans speak a largely Hessian dialect, whereas many Black Sea Germans speak either Schwäbisch (Swabian) or Plattdeutsch (Low German). Although Germans in Russia often show a marked preference for their local dialects, older German Russians can understand and read Hochdeutsch (Standard German) as well.

[MakeItRain]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-common-language-spoken-in-the-u-s-map/

Cantonese and Mandarin are different! Also surprised there's more people speaking German than some other languages in Iowa given the meat packing industry. Does that seem right to you?

It doesn't. I would have guessed Mandarin/Cantonese for Iowa and either German or Vietnamese for Kansas. When I worked at Dillons when I was in high school we would get a crap load of Mennonites who didn't speak a lick of English, must have been a smaller community in western Kansas than I thought.

[ben ji]

Random thought I recently had that maybe goes in this thread...

The "West" begins where they start putting put signs/barricades to close interstate highways during blizzards. You never see any barricades until you get to Salina so that is where the "west" officially begins in my mind.

[MakeItRain]

Random thought I recently had that maybe goes in this thread...

The "West" begins where they start putting put signs/barricades to close interstate highways during blizzards. You never see any barricades until you get to Salina so that is where the "west" officially begins in my mind.

They have them here in Iowa too, they are quite aggressive. I don't believe they have these in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and that surprises me.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

[slackcat]

I’m surprised it’s not German for ks actually. Lots of German mennonites in ks. Tons of people in Meade speak German or some weird Mennonite dialect that is German adjace. Forget the name of it.

Pennsylvania Dutch?

Maybe the same thing but this one I think. I do a pretty great version of old farmers who speak English but with a super heavy accents of the stuff from being around it all the time. Also they always sound like they’re yelling but apparently it’s just how it sounds normally. Really blurt out the “AL” sounds in everything and draw out the L part really far.

I heard the word Pig Latin for the Volga germans.  My folks spoke this language and did not understand the Germans on the news during the fall of the Berlin Wall during the '80s, because they said it was a different type of German language.

Here a google answer:
The Volga Germans speak a largely Hessian dialect, whereas many Black Sea Germans speak either Schwäbisch (Swabian) or Plattdeutsch (Low German). Although Germans in Russia often show a marked preference for their local dialects, older German Russians can understand and read Hochdeutsch (Standard German) as well.

My paternal grandparents were 1st gen. Volga Germans and could speak that dialect. They were head and shoulders above the local hillbillies when they moved to SEK, farmed with tractors.

[MakeItRain]

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/sg4lh4/oc_one_week_of_amtrak_federally_owned_intercity/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share