Comments on: The Atlas of True Names http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/12/the-atlas-of-true-names/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Adam http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/12/the-atlas-of-true-names/#comment-1042 Adam Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:50:16 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/12/the-atlas-of-true-names/#comment-1042 To be clear, I _like_ the mistranslation/maletymologics. Taking a huge data set like place names around the world and uhhh renaming them, it's bound to produce anomalies [strange consistencies?] like Newfoundland. Not quite a cartographic esperanto, but it's in that direction, maybe more like a language twins teach each other. I can totally imagine a 13 year-old german-speaking DM, "So floh sie Atlantis und ankamen in einem neuen land gefunden." Clickety-click! To be clear, I _like_ the mistranslation/maletymologics. Taking a huge data set like place names around the world and uhhh renaming them, it’s bound to produce anomalies [strange consistencies?] like Newfoundland. Not quite a cartographic esperanto, but it’s in that direction, maybe more like a language twins teach each other. I can totally imagine a 13 year-old german-speaking DM, “So floh sie Atlantis und ankamen in einem neuen land gefunden.”

Clickety-click!

]]> By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/12/the-atlas-of-true-names/#comment-1041 Rob Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:09:14 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/12/the-atlas-of-true-names/#comment-1041 @Adam: Click through and you can see a bunch more maps from the Atlas - the rest of North and Central America and one of Europe as well. Strange Maps warns that some of the translations/etymologies in the Atlas are a little shaky - and made more so by the fact the atlas was originally published in German, then translated to English. But that just makes it more like a D&D fantasy world... @Adam: Click through and you can see a bunch more maps from the Atlas – the rest of North and Central America and one of Europe as well.

Strange Maps warns that some of the translations/etymologies in the Atlas are a little shaky – and made more so by the fact the atlas was originally published in German, then translated to English. But that just makes it more like a D&D fantasy world…

]]> By: Adam http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/12/the-atlas-of-true-names/#comment-1040 Adam Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:03:55 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/12/the-atlas-of-true-names/#comment-1040 Cracks me up that Newfoundland remains the same. Sure, so are Havana 'n' Kingston, but Newfoundland? It sounds so fantastically simplistic, or simplistically fantastic! More maps please. Cracks me up that Newfoundland remains the same. Sure, so are Havana ‘n’ Kingston, but Newfoundland? It sounds so fantastically simplistic, or simplistically fantastic! More maps please.

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