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I meant the UCS base-map, not the color scheme.
Ah. That would make more sense
I'm going back to school tomorrow, so my brain has shut off for the next term.
I meant the UCS base-map, not the color scheme.
Ah, but the UCS is merely the colours, and can be used on regional as well as world maps; Munro is the King of Worlda (God would seem... peculiar; the Creator may be in permament exile, but it was still the Creator that, er, created that basemap).I meant the UCS base-map, not the color scheme.
The only thing I have to complain about this map is down in the caption; the use of that confounded Wade-Giles transliteration. But the map itself uses some Pinyan.
Why? What bothers you so much about it?Can't stand pinyin, but I more or less need to use it because otherwise it's impossible to keep track of which cities correspond to which modern ones.
Why? What bothers you so much about it?
I suppose, but too often people simply forgot the apostrophes in Wade-Giles, so they collapsed about half the phonemes together. I ended up just memorizing it, mostly so I could practice pronouncing it, to improve my pronunciation of retroflex and alveolo-palatal consonants. Plus it has a better system for the indication of the aspirated/non-aspirated distinction in plosives.It bears a lot less resemblance to pronunciation than Wade-Giles. I can make a stab at how a Chinese word sounds just by reading the Wade-Giles transliteration out loud (although obviously you're going to have trouble with tones, but I really just want to know vaguely how it sounds) but with pinyin, you need to constantly remind yourself that "q- sounds like emphatic ch-, and x- sounds like hs-, and -ong is actually pronounced -ung" and so on, when Wade-Giles just spells it with ch'- and hs- and -ung.
Who in the world thought "zhou" was an appropriate transliteration for a word which is basically pronounced "chow"?
I assume that the other minorities in the Empire will side with the Hapsburgs if they're offering reforms.How things are going so far in my current TL. The WW1 equivalent is going strong in the year 1915. France fell quickly. The Hungarians have revolted over Emperor Franz Ferdinand's reforms. The Irish are also trying to win independence.
I assume that the other minorities in the Empire will side with the Hapsburgs if they're offering reforms.
It bears a lot less resemblance to pronunciation than Wade-Giles. I can make a stab at how a Chinese word sounds just by reading the Wade-Giles transliteration out loud (although obviously you're going to have trouble with tones, but I really just want to know vaguely how it sounds) but with pinyin, you need to constantly remind yourself that "q- sounds like emphatic ch-, and x- sounds like hs-, and -ong is actually pronounced -ung" and so on, when Wade-Giles just spells it with ch'- and hs- and -ung.
Who in the world thought "zhou" was an appropriate transliteration for a word which is basically pronounced "chow"?
Very interesting. What do the spiky dots mean?From the Dominion of Southern America Timeline:
During the early years of the Republic of Texas, one of President Jackson's major objectives was making real the tenuous claims to California Texas had made. The overseas route was lengthy, having to circumnavigate the entirety of South America. The main overland route, the Old Spanish Trail, was circuitous and felt to be vulnerable to snow in the winter. Jackson's government sought a way directly through the desert to the Pacific. President Jackson sent one of his staunchest loyalists and famous explorer, William Henry Ashley, to find a route as straight as possible from Albuquerque to the Pacific. Ashley was successful, blazing a route almost due west, with water sources no more than 20 miles apart! After crossing the Colorado at the Needles, he was able to link up with the Mojave Road, a native route that had spurs to both the Central Valley of California and down to Presidio de Santa Barbara on the Pacific Ocean. On reaching Santa Barbara, Ashley's party was held by the Mexican faction holding the region, but was able to convince them that they were American traders who had crossed the continent by the Old Spanish Trail. Ashley and his party were treated as heroes on their return to Texas. Ironically, it was the discovery of a more direct route to California that later made possible the sale of northern New Mexico and California to the Americans under the Brown Presidency, as before this the sale would have severed the only known routes from Texas to the Pacific.
Very interesting. What do the spiky dots mean?