Is anyone else getting chat flag notifications? I just got one that looks like it's in Russian

Yes, if you have 10k rep across the network (excluding SO and MSE), you'll see those flags. I ignore a lot of chat flags because I don't understand them. :-)

Ah, that explains it. I did recently hit 10k on the network, it's strange that they think I can moderate what goes on in other chat rooms though

The flag system in chat is, err, how to put this diplomatically? Not calibrated right, let's say. It made sense when the network was smaller, mostly technical sites, and all in English.

Buerebe lij gosse gaajhkh viermie lij aajve englaanten gielie? :P

@Hohmannfan Google's best guess is that that's Hindi, but it's not doing a very good job of translating it if so.

Totally not hindi :)

I was guessing not. :-)

I would have guessed something like Dutch

But I don't know what it is.

Oh, there's a thought -- let's see.

@bowlturner Something Nordic for sure

maybe Affricaans?

however that is spelt

Hint: it is not indo-european

@bowlturner That would have been my second guess

Maybe Armenian

I wonder if you are going to end up in the right place of the world finally :D

@James no, already tried that.

I wonder if it's missing some important accents

Hrm...Its not a turkic language...

englaanten gielie shows up as Africaans, I've seen this stuff before,

its not SE asian...

not middle eastern

nor romance

so that really just leaves africa in my mind

Slovanian Actually translates some words to English.

More sample size to search for? Here you go: Mov nomme lea hohmannfan, jih daelie manne leam SE-sne. Dah lea pryövieh goeretalledh makeres giele daate.

now it sounds Russic

I had to try Slovenian to English translation on that myself :D Still incorrect

Turkish translates more, but makes less sense

is it a dead language?

I speak it...

I think I saw a chat flag once. I looked it over, saw it wasn't a big deal and mark it.. only happened that once, so it took a while to figure out what to do about it

Romansch?

No, it is not a dead language, we are ~1000 people

not Romansch

Spill the beans: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Sami_language

NOOOO I was so close

lapland

ah, one second too late

sami, it is called?

yes

or saemie, we have more vowels than native speakers

Man, you made me learn something today...

:)

What exactly?

I guessing, that Laplanders can use the internet ! ;)

By the way, I am not from Lapland, that is further north.

Yeah, I have internet here on my little island

Writing stuff about spaaace

@bowlturner Afrikaans uses y instead of ij – that’s how you can distinguish it from Dutch.

Wow, I was not expecting to collect this bounty. Woot, 5k!

That's cool, I barely have internet at my house south of town!

@Wrzlprmft Thanks, I'll try to remember that. My second the 3rd languages are C# and SQL...

@Hohmannfan cool. How many people live on your little island?

@MonicaCellio Thats a clever answer.

@MonicaCellio 40 on my little island

google.com/maps/@63.9760445,9.0723214,3927m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

@Hohmannfan cool. Are you part of a larger municipality, or are you all self-governing/managing?

@James thanks. A lot of useful stuff had been said already when I saw it.

cool place @Hohmannfan I haven't had a chance to visit anywhere in Scandinavia yet.

And I have some Norwegian roots too!

Man...how is the weather on your little island?

@James A lot of wind, 10 degrees both summer and winter

Makes sense

@Hohmannfan Is that celcius? Because that sounds great

celsius, not kelvin

@DaaaahWhoosh What else? Nobody outside America uses Fahrenheit.

lol

@Wrzlprmft Yeah but you can blame that on Britain.

@Hohmannfan that looks neat. I had no idea that that larger "island" (when you zoom out) was really so many small islands! Never zoomed in that much before.

Norway is a good place for google earth.

And that is what a glacier does to dirt...

*not a vulcano

@Hohmannfan yeah, there's lots of neat stuff tucked in there if you look.

Jeez I have work to do! :p

I have been there, actually not so far away

@James Not dirt, that is what glaciers do to granite

@Hohmannfan That's pretty awesome

@Hohmannfan Is that a before-and-after?

@HDE226868 Before and after the glaciers? No, all of those images shows landscapes heavily influenced by the ice.

@Hohmannfan Ah, it looked vaguely like the same island.

@Hohmannfan wow, that's cool.

A couple years ago my husband and I wanted to take a vacation but weren't sure where. I told him as long as we were getting on a plane anyway it didn't need to be nearby, so how 'bout going to Norway and Lapland to look for auroras? In the end we wimped out and went to London. :-)

It was plenty of aurora at new year's eve. Visible in Scotland too.

I heard there were some visible in England this year, too. I've never been far-enough north to see one.

While I was thinking about tour groups and cruises up the coast and moon phases, it turns out he was thinking about cold and "not English". :-)

My uncle told me stories of camping in the Cheviots up in Northumberland, and seeing the stars at night (possibly the aurora, although I could be misremembering).

around New Year's Eve, there was one visible in Normandy in France! But I imagine that up North, they are much nicer

I'd love to do that one day.

Yeah, someday I hope to do it. It doesn't have to mean camping in the snow, after all. (Which is good, because -40C or whatever.)