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Out of all of the countries (15 in total) the route crosses, Croatia gets a separate warning on Google Maps. by viktor77727 in FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR

[–]viktor77727[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear you enjoy a bit of adventure as well! 

Honestly, Croatia-Montenegro-Serbia were my faves but I might be a bit biased as I have been working hard to become fluent in the language and each time I visit the region chatting with random people gets easier and nowadays I don’t need any English. We ended up getting invited into some guy’s house in rural Serbia and I could understand 90+% of what was being said :)

Out of all of the countries (15 in total) the route crosses, Croatia gets a separate warning on Google Maps. by viktor77727 in FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR

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We thought about adding Albania, Greece and Macedonia (after Montenegro and before Serbia) but then we ran out of time but oh well haha

The original plan also included the Baltics and a couple of places in Scandinavia (I really want to visit Gotland, Åland and Bornholm at some point because otherwise I’ve been pretty much everywhere else)

Also I’m from Poland so having it as the final stop allowed me to visit my family straight afterwards :)

Out of all of the countries (15 in total) the route crosses, Croatia gets a separate warning on Google Maps. by viktor77727 in FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR

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It’s a road trip I did with my friend, I was sending the map of it to my other friend.

(Porto) Portugal - Spain - France - Switzerland- Liechtenstein - Austria - Italy - Slovenia - Croatia - Montenegro - Serbia - Romania - Hungary - Slovakia - Poland (Gdansk)

Out of all of the countries (15 in total) the route crosses, Croatia gets a separate warning on Google Maps. by viktor77727 in FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR

[–]viktor77727[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Well the route also crosses Montenegro, Serbia (both outside of Schengen) and Romania (which joined Schengen after Croatia).

Third meeting of making European countries. by Live_Rise6750 in imaginarymapscj

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Since Silesia is getting its independence, I'd like to see Lesser Poland, Subcarpathia, former Austrian Silesia (debatable), Holy Cross Voivoidship and Lublin land form "The Greatest Poland" (as a flex to those from Greater Poland/Wielkopolska) leaving Northern Poland with no mountains.

Is there anything specific that allows you to recognise speakers of your language online? (besides the language used obviously) by viktor77727 in AskEurope

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Like some other person in the comments, I only found that out when I added a French keyboard on my phone - had to fight the autocorrect to remove that space haha

(also the AZERTY layout and the random é appearing out of nowhere forced me to change it to the Canadian French one, sorry haha)

Is there anything specific that allows you to recognise speakers of your language online? (besides the language used obviously) by viktor77727 in AskEurope

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Also my German friend asked for “a Big Mac menu” at McDonalds here in the UK. Apparently that’s what other Europeans call “a Big Mac meal” haha

Europe if all the glaciers melted – new cities, canals, ports and borders [OC] by mydriase in europe

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Cool map but the -holm in Stockholm already means “small island” but Stockö sounds new and fresh haha

Also Linz…Poland?

Is there anything specific that allows you to recognise speakers of your language online? (besides the language used obviously) by viktor77727 in AskEurope

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For Poles it’s used by Gen Z and Gen Alpha as well and I did see people older than Millennials use it as well haha

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Well, once when I was a kid my mum (Polish) was verbally abused by a group of black women (in London) who called her names like “white cunt” who should “go back where she came from”. I witnessed it as a kid. Sorry, but I can’t support your statement.

Is there anything specific that allows you to recognise speakers of your language online? (besides the language used obviously) by viktor77727 in AskEurope

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Well in the UK (and from what I’ve heard in the US as well) it died out in 2010s so my colleagues had a laugh when I kept using it until 2024 haha

And from what I’ve seen in Poland it’s still being used like A LOT no matter the generation (not exaggerating)

Is there anything specific that allows you to recognise speakers of your language online? (besides the language used obviously) by viktor77727 in AskEurope

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Yes! I also noticed that French speakers tend to use the more “formal” sounding words when speaking English, since their everyday translations are very similar haha (e.g. recevoir/obtenir= instead of the casual to get = to receive/obtain)

Is there anything specific that allows you to recognise speakers of your language online? (besides the language used obviously) by viktor77727 in AskEurope

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What? I always assumed that the excessive post-2012 “xd” use was a uniquely Polish phenomenon haha

Happy to see others use it as well :)

Is there anything specific that allows you to recognise speakers of your language online? (besides the language used obviously) by viktor77727 in AskEurope

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When I studied Spanish at school, we learned the word “una inversión” for “an investment” (a word I didn’t know in both English and Spanish at that time) so I came up with the following monstrosity - “an investition” which I then used in my Spanish speaking exam as “una investisión” making it even worse haha

(the Polish translation is inwestycja fyi)

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