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The poll and the topic may intersect, being not exactly the same.

What is the thread about? Toponyms.
Linguistically, toponyms usually root from much more ancient times than the rest of the local language's lexicon, and often even root from another language - e.g. that of the people inhabiting your area long before your tribe came to settle.
Also, we can just share interesting etymologies not so "prehistoric":)
For example, who knows if Slough in Berkshire (England) was named so because the place was actually boggy?:)

I'm not sure what I think of your groupings… or the extreme emphasis on a certain island west of here.

Let's admit I went wild.:)

A rather idiosyncratic organisation.  This is wrong by the way: "One of [the] Scandinavian languages. Or other Baltic language."

The Scandinavian languages are not Baltic (or the other way around for that matter).

The Scandinavian languages are not Baltic (or the other way around for that matter).

It would be linguistically wrong, but geographically one might defend Baltic as all of those places bordering the Baltic Sea. And besides bordering the North Sea, what do Dutch and French have in common, anyway? :P

I might use this opportunity to insert a map of the primary human language families:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fe%2Fed%2FPrimary_Human_Language_Families_Map.png&hash=c489c2a8f5037f70cde6468ea7904267" rel="cached" data-hash="c489c2a8f5037f70cde6468ea7904267" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Primary_Human_Language_Families_Map.png) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Primary_Human_Language_Families_Map.png)

You damn freak(s), heed punctuation and context! (Can you try to make your English better?)

I'm not sure what I think of your groupings…

There were 3 aspects.
1, my own specialty; 2, I tried to group them locally, and 3 - at the same time I had sunavobichiz, sorry. There are us here, and everyone is accounted for, so there were certain certainties to fill. ...

This one with a few more subdivisions looks a tad more interesting:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Ff%2Ff7%2FHuman_Language_Families_Map.PNG&hash=15acf89cbc2aeb3d6d08903cb7a1c9f3" rel="cached" data-hash="15acf89cbc2aeb3d6d08903cb7a1c9f3" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Human_Language_Families_Map.PNG) (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_Map.PNG)

Estonian.

One of Scandinavian languages. Or other Baltic language.

I'm not sure what I think of your groupings… or the extreme emphasis on a certain island west of here.

A rather idiosyncratic organisation...

O'k, let's sort it out...
When I approached the poll, there occurred 3 circumstances:

• There are a limited number of members here, who represent certain languages, and I had to jut them out. Other languages were either added to them acc.to p.2, or grouped more generally and separately (p.2).


• Generally (regarding p.1) I considered grouping the languages by 2 parameters: 1) political closeness/locality, and 2) (less prominent and sporadic) linguistical kindred.


• As my specialty is within the British field, and we have a handful of guys from there, I decided to employ a more fractioned division for British English (besides, England is the motherland of English).

A propos, there's a fucking SEPARATE choice for PERSONALLY Ersi, while I'm not aware of any other guys from the region here.

Pssht, the s in à propos may be silent, but it's still written. :D

Really?
Is it French?

Mais oui. Au fait, véracité English mots are facile to distinguish from imported French and Latin words. They have just the most delicious je ne sais quoi, très souvent absente from French.

Estonian is a Uralic language. So is Finnish. This thread belongs to the Central board. And I'm not debating.

Welcome to the Lounge, Ersi!:cheers: And if you undertake a step up - to the board, you'll find not only this thread, but at least 8 worthy of your participation! :hail:

It would be linguistically wrong, but geographically one might defend Baltic as all of those places bordering the Baltic Sea. And besides bordering the North Sea, what do Dutch and French have in common, anyway? :P

I might use this opportunity to insert a map

The whole list would have been technically correct if confusing if the "other" in front of Baltic had been dropped. Not only here I've wondered how contextual "other" is.

• Chinese, Japanese, Korean.


• Other Asian language.


• ...


• Arabic, Urdu, Pashto, Persian.

If you spoke Arabic, an Asian language that is neither Chinese, Japanese, or Korean you would check Arabic, Urdu, Pashto, Persian, but you have two chances, could you also check Other Asian language? In other words, is "other" referring to the options above "other", or to the whole list? After all Arabic isn't an Asian language other than Arabic.

Anyway, there is a map so everything is forgiven.

Jax, are you friends with sequences?
Yes, in the case of Yurop the criterion of locality prevails (besides, considering language groups proper, Yurop is a mess (as is Asia sometimes), and I forgot that stuff, mostly; thanks to Ersi - he has reminded us all about the Uralic family (this area is a tough place)).

Incidentally, I note that English has retained the traditional name for the North Sea, but it doesn't seem to have retained the East Sea name.

Jax, are you friends with sequences?
thanks to Ersi - he has reminded us all about the Uralic family (this area is a tough place)).

It's also clearly demarcated on two maps. :whistle:

What maps?

Both of them? :right:

So I am a little difficult to please. "Other" refers to preceding objects. List order matters. Take this list:

• One thing


• Another thing


• None of the above


• All of the above

The first option is "One thing", the second option is "Another thing", the third option is NOT "One thing" AND NOT "Another thing", while the fourth would be "One thing" AND "Another thing" AND NOT "One thing" AND NOT "Another thing", which is kind of awkward. Better put this list as

• One thing


• Another thing


• All of the above


• None of the above

which is not awkward at all.

Both of them? :right:

:left:
The first is bullshit. The second, lacking any markings too - either for coordinates or the places/countries (titles), at least has a legend.

Jax, read the options first. In order.
What your first language, by the way?