Owen Massey ([info]addedentry) wrote,
@ 2003-10-01 22:45:00
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Maps (wait, they don't love you like I love you)
There seemed to be no LiveJournal community devoted to maps. So I present [info]cartographica. Join!

Even if you don't, you can help by coming up with interests that will snag mapfans - the closer to unique, the better. Have a look at the userinfo for [info]linguists for an idea of the hardcore jargon I'm after.

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[info]kaet
2003-10-01 06:56 pm UTC (link)
Thinking around it a bit (some are some distance away, I guess, do pick and choose, this is just brainstorming of things that come immediately to mind):

GIS, terrain, surveying, theodolite, sounding, nautical mile, sextant, compass, buoy, navigation, landmark, northing, easting, national grid, GPS, GLONAST, magnetic north, tumulus, x marks the spot, grid reference, doomsday book, shires, counties, borders, four colour theorem, isthmus, island, circumnavigation, latitude, longitude, altitude, spacial, visualisation, fractal geometry, data representation, demarkation.

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Westing (by Musket and Sextant)
[info]addedentry
2003-10-02 02:48 am UTC (link)
Superlative! Thank you, I've added nearly all of those; except 'isthmus', because I wasn't sure what the plural might be.

I hope New Agers won't be disappointed when they search for 'meridians'.

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[info]pseudomonas
2003-10-02 02:55 am UTC (link)
I think it ought to be isthmœ. Chambers(1983) doesn't list a plural, and my OED is in London.

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[info]ericklendl
2003-10-02 08:57 am UTC (link)
Isthmuses and isthmi are both valid for Scrabble, but isthmi is only in the American source, isthmuses is in both. I'd go for isthmuses.

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[info]pseudomonas
2003-10-02 02:35 pm UTC (link)
Isthmuses I have no quarrel with. Isthmi is like hippopotami (I think it probably ought to be hippapotamœ, although I admit that current usage does not support me);

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[info]pseudomonas
2003-10-02 03:15 am UTC (link)
Can you put fjord in there? (Or fiord, cos there's no Unicode standard ligature for "fj")

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[info]addedentry
2003-10-02 07:34 am UTC (link)
Are you thinking Slartibartfast?

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[info]pseudomonas
2003-10-02 08:19 am UTC (link)
Possibly subconsciously.

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