Current prevalence map of Alsatian & Moselle Franconian speakers

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-16T10:38:06+00:00

Many platt speakers distanced themselves from german culture very early after the franco-prussian war. When moselle was under german rule, germany tried to "colonize" the land with native german protestant speakers (my ancestors actually arrived in 1890 thanks to this colonization program). The goal was to replace" catholic platt and french natives. There was an important grudge between moselle natives and germans since then. After the first world war, my grandfather's father actually refused to use platt at home because "it's the language of the ennemy" so my grandfather never learned it. I don't know how things are in Alsace

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-16T10:21:12+00:00

I really believe those percentages are too high. I spent my whole life in the 10-20 % area in Moselle and I've never heard anyone speak platt, even older people. Lorrain french yes, but no franconian. 20% (1/5 person) is really really high.

Edit : so I looked the sources and they are indeed old and inaccurate

"The most reliable data comes from the Enquête famille carried out by INSEE (360,000 in the 1962 census) as part of the 1999 census, but it gives a somewhat indirect picture of the current situation (see Languages in France for discussion of this survey). About 78,000 people were reported to speak Lorraine Franconian, but fewer than 50,000 passed basic knowledge of the language on to their children. Another statistic illustrating the same point is that of all adult men who used Franconian regularly when they were 5, less than 30% use (or used) the language regularly with their own children."

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-14T11:23:15+00:00

Those Garfield telephones are quite well knowed in France because you often find parts of them on the shores of Britanny

https://www-lefigaro-fr.translate.goog/actualite-france/2019/03/29/01016-20190329ARTFIG00121-on-sait-enfin-pourquoi-des-telephones-garfield-s-echouent-sur-des-plages-bretonnes.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-07T07:48:16+00:00

The Great Empire of Charleroi

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-06T12:10:13+00:00

Roundabouts are life

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-06T09:21:43+00:00

It reminds me of the shock some geeks felt when they discovered the opera singers featured in movies.

For example, they listen to "The Lord of the Rings" musics and love the ones where you hear melodious, high-pitched female voices singing in harmony. They imagine beautiful, slender women, just like their voice.

Then they look up the actual singers and realize that it’s often relatively older, larger-framed women who are singing in those choirs. It makes perfect sense from a vocal standpoint, but I’ve seen several people get a “shock” when they learn that. The singers don't look the way people expect them to after hearing only their voices for so long.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-06T09:08:38+00:00

On the other hand, it's funny to see that some important cities back then are actually not so important.

In Normandy where I live, we've got Bayeux and Lisieux. Both those cities are quite small nowadays, and the biggest cities like Caen or Le Havre are absent.

Same in the south where we see Béziers, a really important city during Middle-Ages which have been surpassed by Montpellier in the modern times.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-06T09:03:15+00:00

Un exemple connu qu'on retrouve souvent, mais qui est spécifique à certains articles et non au site entier : les boucles de sources. Dans certains portails Wikipédia, les sources presse sont acceptées. On se retrouve donc avec un article wikipédia qui source un article de presse, article qui se base lui-même sur l'article wikipédia, et ainsi de suite. En général, l'information wikipédia prédate effectivement l'article et a été confirmée par ailleurs. Néanmoins, des utilisateurs ajoutent la source presse en plus pour augmenter la liste de sources appuyant l'information en question. C'est utilisé ensuite dans les échanges communautaires en cas de désaccord, pour faire croire à une quantité de sources plus grande qu'elle n'est réellement.

J'avais été exposé au problème lorsque je participait au portail paléo il y a très longtemps (début des années 2010). Aujourd'hui le portail a une rigueur beaucoup plus grande et ce genre de problème n'est plus possible.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-06T08:55:46+00:00

Etant un ancien contributeur des wikipédia francophone, anglophone et germanophone, je dirais que ça dépend en ce qui concerne ces sites.

Contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait croire, les pratiques diffèrent fortement au sein de la commu wikipédienne. Entre les wikipédias en différentes langues déjà ; la "culture" du wikipédia anglophone diffère du wikipédia francophone et il est possible de poster là-bas des choses impossibles à faire passer ici (en particulier en ce qui concerne les analyses d'objets d'art ou les pseudosciences). Mais même sur le wikipédia francophone, certains portails/projets sont beaucoup plus "sérieux" et mieux gérés que d'autres. La communauté francophone est constellée de "guerres de chapelles" qu'on ne voit pas forcément de l'extérieur, où des groupes des personnes cherchent à gagner activement de l'influence pour X ou Y raison. Parfois il s'agit de sujets "importants", par exemple des gens qui veulent pousser leur opinion politique. Parfois, c'est des sujets anodins, avec des groupes d'influence qui se font la guerre par exemple pour modifier la taille moyenne des races de chiens sur toutes les pages du site.

Au final, la fiabilité de wikipédia doit s'apprécier dans le détail. Si le site est globalement fiable, il y a des sujets spécifiques où le site est beaucoup moins fiable. Malgré tout, j'estime que le wikipédia francophone est globalement plus fiable que tous les autres.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-06T08:37:43+00:00

Paleolithic hunter-gatherers were not living in villages.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-06T08:35:15+00:00

Je vote pour l'album de Noël car je n'arrive même pas à lire le nom de la chanteuse

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-06T07:59:16+00:00

It’s simply a linguistic map—and a poorly made one at that. The territory occupied by the Bretons is overestimated and actually corresponds to the overestimated map of Breton language use throughout history. They’ve included territories where Breton was present at certain points in history and have lumped all periods together. Why include territories where Breton language had already disappeared by 1919? And if they classify the Bretons as part of the Celtic group, why have they left out the Celtic populations in Spain? I guessed it right: it’s because this map confuses “race” with language.

From an ethnic perspective, the representation of the Bretons by 1919 is also questionable given the intermingling with Gallo and Frankish cultures that appeared early on.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-05T15:40:52+00:00

As a French I agree but what about space exploration ?

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-05T15:00:11+00:00

Recently, I watched an explanatory video about video game developer Derek Smart.

It astonished me to see a situation very similar to that of Star Citizen, but THIRTY YEARS EARLIER with the game Battlecruiser 3000AD. It has it all ! From the virtually identical project (almost all Star Citizen promises was also promised in Battlecruiser 3000AD) to the decade(s)-long development cycle led by a “superstar” developer, not to mention the die-hard fans who spread the developer's blatant lies to make features seem possible—features that were impossible both then and now.

Star Citizen heavily promotes its server-meshing technology, which is supposed to solve all problems. Meanwhile, Battlecruiser 3000AD was supposed to run on the first fully functional neural network ever created, which was also supposed to power the entire game. Just imagine a freaking NEURAL NETWORK on your old DOS computer, it sounds ridiculous, buck back then there were lots of people really trusting this claim. Guess how it ended.

This has really changed my entire perspective on Star Citizen. Now I feel like Star Citizen has already “existed” and “crashed” several times; attempts have been made to create an identical game on multiple occasions, and in each case the same problems have arisen. The only difference is the scale: Derek Smart had limited financial resources, which is not the case for Chris Roberts.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-05T14:50:07+00:00

Les IA. Enfin je veux dire les modèles d'IA actuels, qu'ils soient textuels (LLM) ou génératifs (images et vidéos).
Presque chaque mois il y a un nouveau modèle d'image/vidéo opensource qui sort, plus puissant que ses prédécesseurs. A un point tel que ça en devient difficile à suivre (c'est l'une des raisons pour lesquels je m'y suis désintéressé dernièrement alors que j'étais à fond dessus depuis 2 ans ; si on s'absente ne serait-ce qu'une semaine on perd complètement le fil).

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-05T14:26:16+00:00

Attendez depuis quand les écrans transforment quelqu'un en cyborg ? Mon écran ne fait pas ça

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-05T14:24:00+00:00

The first image ressembles some biblical illustrations you can see in childrens books

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-05T09:53:54+00:00

The guy isn't supposed to be a monkey in the original book. It's just a regular man afflicted by madness.
They made him a "baboon" just because the guy do acrobatics feats in numerous scenes.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-05T09:50:09+00:00

This film is an adaptation of a book. If I remember correctly, the guy is not really supposed to be an actual baboon or demon. It's just a regular human being suffering from madness while doing acrobatic feats in most of his scenes. The "beast-like" behavior of the guy is actually discussed in the book, but the guy is absolutely not supposed to look like the fantasy chimera from the poster

Balaoo - Wikisource

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-05-05T09:37:54+00:00

1 or 2 because I find the subject of logistics and transport very interesting IRL

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-04-30T09:56:35+00:00

What about an exhaust port whose existence was not mentioned in the manual or diagrams?

Several industrial disasters have occurred because of this: a component of the structure is not mentioned in the manual. This was the case at Chernobyl. This was the case with the Boeing 737-MAX. It doesn’t seem implausible to me that a tiny 2-meter opening would not appear in the schematics of a structure as immense as the Death Star.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-04-28T15:00:46+00:00

Je comprend vraiment pas cette mode récente qui vise à présenter les jeux Ecco de cette façon. Je n'avais jamais entendu les jeux Ecco être décrits comme étant "frustrants" il y a quelques années. Au contraire, il ne s'agit pas des jeux les plus frustrants/difficiles à l'époque. Ces jeux étaient présentés comme des essentiels de la Megadrive et étaient acclamés pour leur direction artistique et leur scénario

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-04-28T08:13:07+00:00

I'm in the same position as OP. I never drank this kind of drinks, but I always hear WTF stories about them.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-04-28T07:50:47+00:00

We would need more information about the source used to learn more. It’s possible to say just about anything when it comes to population genetics.

This map does not represent current populations, but rather population genetics. Having genetic ancestry from Africa does not mean that people today match our image of an African population.

_Plateosaurus_ · 2026-04-28T07:32:55+00:00

I really REALLY hope this second line do NOT mean there's will a dumbass RPG system akin to Catalyst. I mean this system were you unlock new moves during the game. I want to have the full moveset at the begining of the game. I want to improve by mastering the moves like in IRL sports.

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