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  • Where I live there are two official languages, the one from the country, Spanish, and the one from the region, Valencian, so you have places and streets named in one and translated into the other and both are valid. Some important places have only one official name in Valencian.

    Well there is a huge historical railroad station called Estación del Norte (North Station) that people called it by translating it into Valencian, and now the official name is Estació del Nord.

    The thing is that the station was never located on the north of anything in the city, it is called Norte because that’s how it was called the company that built it.

    Making the translation official not only increases the confusion about its location for people who doesn’t know the city, but it also hides its history, I know a lot of people living here that don’t know where the name came from and who build it.

    I don’t have issues with making official naming in Valencian as long it does not change the name of a person or company.















  • ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldMedium rare is life
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    3 months ago

    I’m one of those who sometimes make the cow mooning joke and I know wait staff might thinking the “how original” meme, but I do to make it clear how I want the meat.

    In my experience ordering meat at most restaurants is that usually is done more than you ordered, I suppose that is to avoid people ordering medium and then complaining that is undercooked.

    I don’t comment or judge other people’s preferences, everyone has their own.



  • Where I live the water is very hard, poor quality (but inside of the allowed limits), and also the pipes in my flat’s building are fucking old, so yes, I only drink from bottled or filtered water.

    It might not pose a real risk, but I prefer err on the safe side. Additionally the Brita filter removes the nasty taste that the tap water has here and the kettle doesn’t have lime stains.



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    5 months ago

    I have the device in Spanish but set the app to English cause the majority of content I consume is in English so that way it doesn’t auto-translates audio and titles into Spanish.

    However now is the other way around, the few Spanish creators I follow are auto translated into English.

    Is it too difficult to set a list of languages I understand and don’t translate the ones in the list?