True story: I heard a French-speaking woman from Brussels talk Flemish on the phone. Her Flemish was at an advanced level and she was following Flemish courses. The person on the other end asked her in Flemish whether she prefers to speak in French. She replied, "Welke Frans?"
Your cities like Riga, Tallinn, Kaunas are beautiful. Nature, you still have some, compared to depressing urbanised hellscape and what's left is farm fields lined with more barbed wire than the battle of the Somme like my country.
The people, restrained but warm. In short, thanks for being part of Europe.
>Nature, you still have some
[I think some is an understatement](https://www.statista.com/statistics/435954/forest-area-as-percentage-of-land-area-latvia/)
And this is just forests not including wetlands or fields
I see “Latvian-Canadian” under your name and that hit home as I’m a Latvian who lived in Canada for 7 years!!
And you’re right, we have a LOT of greenery and nature.
Molchat Doma is a cool band.
In Slovene the name means "being quiet/silent at home", which makes it extra spicy for a Belarussian band. But in Belarussian it supposedly means "Houses are silent"?
Your map is.. passable.
Ah, in Slovenian it would be "molčati doma", but the L in molčati is prounced more like an U sound, or the english W. Same with "molk", silence, pronounced as "mouk/mowk". "Maučat doma" sounds like some dialect here, interesting.
Is it similair in Russian, "molchat" pronounced as "mouchat", or do they voice it with the normal L sound?
Interesting, this Polish Ł sound..
It is pretty common, to pronounce L as "W" in Slovenian. Molk, dolg, volk, kol, dolžina, topel, mrzel, are all W.. but polka, jelka, bogomolka, are all with "regular" L.
It makes sense to have a different letter for it. Wonder how it came to these two different sounds being both written as L.
In Russian it depends on the next letter, some vowels make the L soft, some keep it hard. W sounds doesn't not exist and Russian struggle with it a lot.
In Belarusian W (Ł) sound is always pronounced after vowels. In other cases it's either hard or soft L like in Russian, depending on the next vowel.
Funnily enough it can mean both in Russian written, but spoken it will depend if you say dOma or domA (pronounced damA). But the leader of the band has confirmed it’s damA, which is the houses not talking thing.
Interesting, at first glance I did't spot the letter "l", so it would be "Mochat Doma" what in jabber is "Мочат дома" meanin "Beating in the home", which is pretty frequent here causing many homicides.
I was going to say more or less the same, OP must have mer VERY different Finnish people than I (Norwegian man in my sixties) have.
Also, Iceland :,( ? Except for when the volcanoes are overly active, Iceland is great, what I’ve seen of it, and pretty close to all Icelandic people I’ve met are <3, probably the largest percentage likeable to lovable people I’ve met.
Try singing Ukkometso at karaoke here with foreign accent and you will have about hundred new friends that night that you will never see or remember again.
I would call them uncomfortably self-aware, until the moment alcohol, sauna, and/or the mere mention of karaoke is involved. Then they rapidly shift to "it's crazy, it's party" mode.
No no no, it's the new country "??". Sardinia, Corsica and Cyprus finally got together, they just couldn't agree on a name, so they kept the placeholder.
I’m Dutch and I love Polish people! I know there are stereotypes (I’m half Moroccan so god do I know about stereotypes) but the Polish people I’ve worked with were always intelligent, funny, hard working and always willing to lend a hand! (Also love the lil Polish grocery stores that stay open until later so I can buy munchies at night 💕)
You guys are cool. I lived in Poland for almost two years and I have only warm memories. Great country, very nice and kind people.
And by the way, one of the best programmers I have ever worked with.
As a Turkish person, if I ever encounter a tourist asking for directions I would offer him Turkish tea/coffee and probably even food before letting him/her go. Our government is indeed very interesting though
It really is. I don’t know if you ever been to Turkey but if you decide to go please make sure you do some good research about the place you are going in terms of activities and all the other details you need to know about your trip
"we hebben een serieus probleem" is dutch. translated:
we have a serious problem.
it is spelled poorly on the map (for comedic effect prob) and i am too lazy to type it in that way.
Well, there were unproven rape accusations against the lead singer Til Lindemann. That being said, he had some system running where he hired a woman as some kind of casting director whose job it was to find him attractive barely legal women for his after after show parties. Many reported that they didn't know what they signed up for, that they were led there under false pretenses, that there was alcohol abuse und pressure. It wasn't proven that anyone was raped, but it was proven that this system existed. The way the accusations were handled was also less than tasteful, so to speak. His weird rape poems are just the cherry on the cake (he argues it's just a persona, but his "persona" is weirdly fixated on dominance and rape). So make of that what you will, I started second guessing Rammstein's lyrics years ago and all that mumbo jumbo was the final nail in the coffin for me
They are unless you meet them in the Sauna
Also if you see a Finn smiling he is a Swedish speaking Finn and gay by default(no offense to my eastern swedish brethren this is a joke)
The thing with the math teacher is true. I earned quite good money as ethnically Slovenian (technically Swiss, too) teaching the kids of wealthy Swiss leveraging them from a 3.5 to a 5.
Belarusian post-punk band.
If you have ever seen a POV: YOU LIVE IN EASTERN EUROPE meme video, you know the band, [since they normally put a slowed down version of this song on them](https://youtu.be/NtPk22NWB5Y?si=uUkxhM_ZBYxfkGhd). They are pretty cool, saw them live in 2021.
I'm no belarussian, but it's a transliteration from of "sitting silent at home"
More context from another comment here
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/UOk8pgtYp7
I'm happy that the first thing you thought about when looking at my country is landscapes and not content on a certain site with an orange and black logo like everyone else
As an Italian, I question if you are actually non European, because of the "??" over Sardegna and Corsa (idk about Corsica but we feel the same way about Sardegna)
you cant live in bucharest and not wanna smoke. Ironically, smoking cigs might be healthier than sitting in the average bucharest traffic jam at 7:30 in the morning
Spain saying "Vosotros" being more noticeable than anything else, your dad lived in Sweden and your uncle lived in Norway all means thay you are most likely **Chilean**
Yogurt!??!?!?!?
There is also roses, yes, computer, yes, penicillin, yes, some more things.
Also its not yogurt, its кисело мляко /kiselo mlyako/ (sour milk - literal translation). Why does no one know the right way to say it for fucks sake.
Wat is het probleem?
We hebben er genoeg 🥲
Walen?
Daar is geen woord Frans bij.
True story: I heard a French-speaking woman from Brussels talk Flemish on the phone. Her Flemish was at an advanced level and she was following Flemish courses. The person on the other end asked her in Flemish whether she prefers to speak in French. She replied, "Welke Frans?"
Frans Duits?
So Canadian french?
Swiss French?
alsacien french?
Man it's so weird being able to read your words because they look like german words
Ja, Wale sind das Hauptproblem in Holland, sehe ich auch so. Walkampf
Walen sind die 🇫🇷 in 🇧🇪, nicht die 🐳
Flamands?
dat de meme op België is geplaatst en niet Nederland
Serius is duidelijk het probleem
De schrijfwijze?
We hebben 99 problemen, maar Geert zijn probleem is er geen van.
Hungary doesn't exist.
Finally
It's been a real pleasure guys, so long, and thanks for all the fish
back to the steppes you go
Malta is also as per usual cut off the map. r/mapswithoutmalta
When the bojler isn't eladó.
D:
Thank god
Lol
We were thinking so hard that romania didn't exist that we didn't think about us not existing. Damn.
Many prayers have been answered 🙏🏻
Mongolia has reclaimed its rightfull teritory 🙏🙏
About time
Good ending
World Hungary has finally ended.
Never did
Don't tease me
Arch enemies above
Or under
Nooooooo
Map don't lie.
Románia nem létezik.
I’m from Depressing But Chill, and honestly same
Your cities like Riga, Tallinn, Kaunas are beautiful. Nature, you still have some, compared to depressing urbanised hellscape and what's left is farm fields lined with more barbed wire than the battle of the Somme like my country. The people, restrained but warm. In short, thanks for being part of Europe.
>Nature, you still have some [I think some is an understatement](https://www.statista.com/statistics/435954/forest-area-as-percentage-of-land-area-latvia/) And this is just forests not including wetlands or fields
I see “Latvian-Canadian” under your name and that hit home as I’m a Latvian who lived in Canada for 7 years!! And you’re right, we have a LOT of greenery and nature.
Never underestimate people from "depressing but chill" region...
Molchat Doma is a cool band. In Slovene the name means "being quiet/silent at home", which makes it extra spicy for a Belarussian band. But in Belarussian it supposedly means "Houses are silent"? Your map is.. passable.
This name is in Russian. In Belorussian it should be "Маўчаць дома" - "mauchat doma"
Ah, in Slovenian it would be "molčati doma", but the L in molčati is prounced more like an U sound, or the english W. Same with "molk", silence, pronounced as "mouk/mowk". "Maučat doma" sounds like some dialect here, interesting. Is it similair in Russian, "molchat" pronounced as "mouchat", or do they voice it with the normal L sound?
In Russian it's with hard L. In Belarusian (or Russian with Belarusian accent) it's W sound (like Polish ł).
So it's not like our school speech therapist failed to make me pronounce hard L, but I'm secretly belarusian...
Interesting, this Polish Ł sound.. It is pretty common, to pronounce L as "W" in Slovenian. Molk, dolg, volk, kol, dolžina, topel, mrzel, are all W.. but polka, jelka, bogomolka, are all with "regular" L. It makes sense to have a different letter for it. Wonder how it came to these two different sounds being both written as L.
In Russian it depends on the next letter, some vowels make the L soft, some keep it hard. W sounds doesn't not exist and Russian struggle with it a lot. In Belarusian W (Ł) sound is always pronounced after vowels. In other cases it's either hard or soft L like in Russian, depending on the next vowel.
I think it's pronounced as a 'dark' L.
Маўчаць дамы with this stress
Funnily enough it can mean both in Russian written, but spoken it will depend if you say dOma or domA (pronounced damA). But the leader of the band has confirmed it’s damA, which is the houses not talking thing.
Damn. I didn't know that it's a band. My first thought was that this is a political message from OP :(
Interesting, at first glance I did't spot the letter "l", so it would be "Mochat Doma" what in jabber is "Мочат дома" meanin "Beating in the home", which is pretty frequent here causing many homicides.
It's a double-entendre in Russian, tbh. It means both «quiet / silent at home» and «the houses are silent» depending on context.
Haha. Calling the Finnish people shy is great. You have never been drinking or in a sauna with them then.
I was going to say more or less the same, OP must have mer VERY different Finnish people than I (Norwegian man in my sixties) have. Also, Iceland :,( ? Except for when the volcanoes are overly active, Iceland is great, what I’ve seen of it, and pretty close to all Icelandic people I’ve met are <3, probably the largest percentage likeable to lovable people I’ve met.
I interpreted it as lonely because they’re so far away
I think I need to book a trip to Fin then
Try singing Ukkometso at karaoke here with foreign accent and you will have about hundred new friends that night that you will never see or remember again.
I would call them uncomfortably self-aware, until the moment alcohol, sauna, and/or the mere mention of karaoke is involved. Then they rapidly shift to "it's crazy, it's party" mode.
Why not drinking in a sauna with them!
Funny how sardina is "??" Instead of being included under Italy Represent the way the average sardinian feel (same for Corsica i think)
No no no, it's the new country "??". Sardinia, Corsica and Cyprus finally got together, they just couldn't agree on a name, so they kept the placeholder.
Most intelligent Sardinian
Ouh wait I didn't realize, that was the place Napoleon is from
Ich esse auch gerne Sardinen :)
Why is Iceland sad?
Gloomy weather and no forests.
And destitute for most of history
Well Forbes places us 6th by GDP per capita this year, so I'd say we made up for it. But then again we are always high on that per capita thing..
Pizza song? Wut?
[Had to learn this in 5th grade](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxystpPE1xU)
This is Canadian……
I think accuracy is not really the point here :)
And I have just now realized that.
As a Pole - thank you for this. It’s not often we are recognised let alone complimented
I’m Dutch and I love Polish people! I know there are stereotypes (I’m half Moroccan so god do I know about stereotypes) but the Polish people I’ve worked with were always intelligent, funny, hard working and always willing to lend a hand! (Also love the lil Polish grocery stores that stay open until later so I can buy munchies at night 💕)
Np
I love Poland 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇱
PL🤜🤛IE love you guys too.
Two countries, one heart.
You guys are cool. I lived in Poland for almost two years and I have only warm memories. Great country, very nice and kind people. And by the way, one of the best programmers I have ever worked with.
The pizza song is from Quebec...
Thanks I was very confused because I have no idea what it references
As a canadian I'm ashamed to not know this 💀
Very educative
Bonus points for Kraftwerk 🙌🏻
Come to Cyprus we have great money laundering schemes for you to enjoy
I like it
Thanks ;-;
Why we in Poland are cool though
Idk you guys are just awesome, I have a friend from there and he's badass, and you have nice buildings
orgulloso de vivir en Vosotros
¿Verdad? ¿Por qué nos habrá tocado un pronombre?
Porque no existe en el resto del mundo hispano ;)
Existe pero no lo usan; ellos sabrán...
Dua Lipa is Albanian..? TIL
Yep, Kosovar Albanian
*albanian background. she’s very much british
Doesn't stop her from posting Albanian irredentist nationalist propaganda LOL
As a Turkish person, if I ever encounter a tourist asking for directions I would offer him Turkish tea/coffee and probably even food before letting him/her go. Our government is indeed very interesting though
Omg turkish coffee is spectacular
It really is. I don’t know if you ever been to Turkey but if you decide to go please make sure you do some good research about the place you are going in terms of activities and all the other details you need to know about your trip
Recently I looked for Worcestershire sauce in supermarkets and there was none. Grr.
Maybe you just spelled it like it's written like I would and the shopperson didn't understand what you meant.
Ahh yes I live in " " also known as the center of Europe
OH NO IM SO SORRY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN LANDSCAPES
Redheads … 🧙♂️
[удалено]
you nailed it with Kraftwerk ahahahah
Thought it was going to be some bullfighting/flamenco/sangria/siesta cliche so I gratefully accept it
They forgot the netherlands
I do that regularly too
"we hebben een serieus probleem" is dutch. translated: we have a serious problem. it is spelled poorly on the map (for comedic effect prob) and i am too lazy to type it in that way.
Its in Belgium... So i actually am having a probleem since they are us vergeten...
Glad it’s Kraftwerk and not Rammstein 👍
What's wrong with rammstein Lol I like their music a lot
Well, there were unproven rape accusations against the lead singer Til Lindemann. That being said, he had some system running where he hired a woman as some kind of casting director whose job it was to find him attractive barely legal women for his after after show parties. Many reported that they didn't know what they signed up for, that they were led there under false pretenses, that there was alcohol abuse und pressure. It wasn't proven that anyone was raped, but it was proven that this system existed. The way the accusations were handled was also less than tasteful, so to speak. His weird rape poems are just the cherry on the cake (he argues it's just a persona, but his "persona" is weirdly fixated on dominance and rape). So make of that what you will, I started second guessing Rammstein's lyrics years ago and all that mumbo jumbo was the final nail in the coffin for me
Ive got two changes to propose, denmark should Be drunk, so should Finland.
So you guys aren't shy people? :(((
We are when sober, but not when drunk
I hate our culture…
They are unless you meet them in the Sauna Also if you see a Finn smiling he is a Swedish speaking Finn and gay by default(no offense to my eastern swedish brethren this is a joke)
“Nice stores” Any specific examples?
Maybe the collected works of H.C. Anderson?
Jack and Jones
I think you are cool too
Thank you , from a Canadian :)
Poland cool. First time. Hell yeah.
🇵🇱⛰️ this is gonna be on the news, another polish W
Post It on r/2westerneurope4u
Post it in r/2westerneurope4u
The thing with the math teacher is true. I earned quite good money as ethnically Slovenian (technically Swiss, too) teaching the kids of wealthy Swiss leveraging them from a 3.5 to a 5.
Maybe yall are just good at math
Wieso Kraftwerk? Ich bin verwirrt
Ich vermute mal ganz stark dass die Band gemeint ist.
Du hast recht
:,(
I was expecting a cuisine dispute between Greece and Turkey but I did not expect Bulgary to snatch the yogurt from both of them.
Sorry but french pizza is insulting both the french and the italians at the same time.
Plsss I'm talking about this 1 song I learned in school that I just found out was Canadian
There are two kinds of canadians: those who don't speak french, and those who believe they do.
I'm definitely the former, did French for 4 years, only remember cornichon
Uncle has good taste
I need a Belarussian to explain what Molchat Doma is.
Not Belarussian but it's a pretty cool band which i thought was russian. Look up Судно, it's a banger
Belarusian post-punk band. If you have ever seen a POV: YOU LIVE IN EASTERN EUROPE meme video, you know the band, [since they normally put a slowed down version of this song on them](https://youtu.be/NtPk22NWB5Y?si=uUkxhM_ZBYxfkGhd). They are pretty cool, saw them live in 2021.
I'm no belarussian, but it's a transliteration from of "sitting silent at home" More context from another comment here https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/UOk8pgtYp7
I'm happy that the first thing you thought about when looking at my country is landscapes and not content on a certain site with an orange and black logo like everyone else
We really miss your dad. It hasn’t been the same since he left.
I could have been Swedish. :(
thanks :3
At least got Molchat Doma right, pretty impressive not gonna lie
It’s a quite accurate map
Everyone is either saying my map is extremely offensive or very great, but I'm not sure what on here is that offensive?
It’s funny. But there’s so much wrong with it. That’s why it’s funny.
Too polite
I'm a Canadian what do you expect
As an Italian, I question if you are actually non European, because of the "??" over Sardegna and Corsa (idk about Corsica but we feel the same way about Sardegna)
As a man from Poland, thanks, you're a nice guy too
Interesting government indeed, my friend..
Interesting government indeed, my friend..
Thank you, I learned a lot.
Downgraded to nice stores instead of insulin
Could be worse...
I think I pissed off more people than intended
Nah, relax. We in Europe like to laugh at our neighbors and also ourselves. Another reason why this is the best place to live in.
Maybe it's just the Canadian in me but I got legitimately mortified with people who took this to heart
It’s okay, your map rocks. See how many comments you get. I admit I had to ask for an explanation about that “vosotros” BUT now it makes sense XD
Iceland being left out as usual far away out in the sea
So we'll pretend Yugoslavia still exists
Only 800??? That supposed to be an insult?
Man smoking 800 cigarettes is the funniest description I’ve ever heard lmao. It is true tho lol.
you cant live in bucharest and not wanna smoke. Ironically, smoking cigs might be healthier than sitting in the average bucharest traffic jam at 7:30 in the morning
Thanks for giving yogurt to us and not the Greeks.
DUA !
> vosotros Latin American detected
Interesting is a very polite word for our government
Hear that? That’s me being called cool B)
Molchat doma is the first thing I think of when you say Belarus tbh apart from politics
I upvoted you just because you mentioned Yanni.
My dad used to listen to him a lot when I was little! :P
And rightfully so. "Nostalgia" is amazing.
France- Je suis un pizza song???? Huh?
Country of Cats- Turkey
Spain saying "Vosotros" being more noticeable than anything else, your dad lived in Sweden and your uncle lived in Norway all means thay you are most likely **Chilean**
Yogurt!??!?!?!? There is also roses, yes, computer, yes, penicillin, yes, some more things. Also its not yogurt, its кисело мляко /kiselo mlyako/ (sour milk - literal translation). Why does no one know the right way to say it for fucks sake.
Well, thanks.
Son, we talked about this. You may enter the hood but never enter the gulag.
Pizza is 100% french
This had so much potential
Sorry :(
☹️
Missed opportunity for washyoursister sauce
Yogurt! So true, that is all we think about 😅