I don't think Occitan had shrinked that much before the French Revolution? My gu... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

euccastro on May 7, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Map of Language Distribution in Europe

I don't think Occitan had shrinked that much before the French Revolution?

My guess is the author is assuming that everyone knows where the dominant, 'imperial' languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Russian ...) are spoken, and aims to represent the deltas from those. Either that, or it has an exaggerated anti-imperialist bias.

jsmcgd on May 7, 2008 | [–]

Agreed. If you assume that the dominant languages have been 'colored in' first and the lesser dominant languages have been laid on top then it works.

DmitriLebedev on May 9, 2008 | [–]

That's what I thought of too.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact