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Essence sounds so fucking cool, like some offering to appease the machine gods
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China is a pretty big country to just skip like this lol. They call it Qiyou
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I like “essence”
Pretty big miss to not include Quebec in the "essence" category, or at least to do a striped pattern
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mmmMMMmmm, Essense, yessss
A gas is not a liquid, change my mind
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Give me a full tank of Others please!
Algerian here, the most common word used to talk about "gas" here is actually the french word essence, since darja(what people actually speak) is just a weird amalgamate of french, Arabic and Berber that really don't get along well.
I know this Map just took the official languages, so I don't wanna call it inacuratd, but just wanted to point this out.
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Not gonna lie, that’s an odd choice of name from China.
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Spain has many languages, in Catalan is benzene and I think in Aragonese is the same.
I believe they call it guzzoline in Australia.
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In China it's 汽油 which basically means "gas oil". It's a verbatim translation of gasoline.
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In Czech Repulic, Nafta is diesel.
Essence of "go."
Calling it "essence" is fucking weird.
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Why is Greenland grey? It's the same as Denmark
Um excuse me but Koreans call it 휘발유 which means 揮發油 which means Volatile Oil.
who the fuck called that la gasolina?
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“Naphta” immediately makes me think of “naphtaline” balls, which were used to repel moths from closets a few generations ago — it’s been banned since for being kinda carcinogenic. I’ve never seen it used, and didn’t know that it was made from petroleum.
One of my favorite movies is Black Cat, White Cat (1998) and they are talking about "prima naphta" (Serbian? Spelling?) which was translated as gasoline. Is the translation wrong and they are actually talking about diesel or is the map not correct? Or something else?
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