51 more people upvoted that comment than downvoted it?! They all have to be propaganda bots, right?
There's no way a map centered on the prime meridian showing international words for gas can really be considered "America centric" by any thinking human, right?
Petrol is the dumbest name. Gasoline is a particular formulation of petroleum (oil). Petrol just means that you've got a product made from petroleum, so plastic could also be petrol as is diesel.
The term "gasoline" appears to be something like soccer. The term originates in the UK and then migrates to the US while the British start to use a different name from the one they coined.
To make things more interesting there are to potential sources for the term "gasoline" both of which are brand names. "Gasolene" shows up in the British racing circuit as a preferred brand name and "Casoline" shows up as a common fuel station in the UK.
Na,
Petr-ol = "rock spirits", the -ol suffix coming from alcohol (the analogy being alcohol is a distilled product like petrol is distilled from crude oil)
Petr-oleum = "rock oil", oleum meaning oil as in cooking oil
The reason places like SEA, China or Nigeria arent listed is likely due to their languages not having a word thats on par with gas, petrol and such so its their own word, making only them have that word.
Generally maps like this will put nations as "other" if their the only one on the list for that word.
EDIT: just from 2 seconds of googling i found 4 different Chinese words, all with different translations, all with multiple ways of representing the words depending on context of word use. I 100% understand why they didnt say “china uses this word” because there are so many people in china to say EVERYONE uses this one word would be ignorant to the remaining MAJORITY which are split between other variants. No single word outweighs the combined % of all other words.
"Chinese" is also like 10+ mutually unintelligible languages that the CCP copes into pretending are just dialects of a single Chinese Language. It's like somebody combining all the Romance (which are collectively more closely related than the Sinitic Languages) or Germanic languages (including English, Dutch, and the Nordic Languages) and saying they're just dialects of Romantic or German
In this context it probably just means it's unique. You can group the others, which is what makes the graph useful in the first place, but countries that use something that nobody else uses just get grouped together. Otherwise you'd need a ton of colors, a massive legend, etc - while really what you're trying to communicate here are groups of countries sharing the same word.
Anyone complaining about america-centrism in this context is just a regard.
I have more problem with Greenland, n Korea, Afghanistan and s Sudan...
Like what - we're going to paint them in "we don't have data" color? It's not possible to "not have data", unless they never, ever mentioned the benzene at all, which is just not case xD Also Greenlanders literally speak Danish, if I'm not mistaken. Why they're in this color.
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It's America-centric because it checks notes is an international comparison of terms for gas.
That's fair.
I looked it up and apparently gasoline is qiyóu in Chinese if anyone was wondering
https://preview.redd.it/19lancfb5s7g1.jpeg?width=491&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23250450ea10efdedd5f38b9515f405c76475a81
Something something damage calc
So the map doesn’t show china’s because it’s been banned.
Vapor-oil.
Thanks, I actually was wondering!
So it’s American centric because China has a different name for gas than everyone else?
Europe is literally in the center of the map. "Won't someone please think of the Chinese "
51 more people upvoted that comment than downvoted it?! They all have to be propaganda bots, right?
There's no way a map centered on the prime meridian showing international words for gas can really be considered "America centric" by any thinking human, right?
Benzene? What the fuck lmao.
They call it “benzina” which is used in place of gasoline or petrol, it’s just labeled wrong on the map. They also misspelled it.
They call it benzine in Estonia, in italy i have heard both Gasoline and Benzine used. Never heard anyone call it "benzina" anywhere I've been
Benzine, actually,
Like the drug?
Benzene describes the atomic makeup
Gasoline isnt made up of benzene though
There is a little of it in there. It's just a quirk of language - these things don't have to really make sense.
"Gasoline" came from an old brand of kerosene - that shit is also pretty nonsensical, really.
There's a tiny bit of fecal matter in every dish you get served at every restaurant. Do you call it a plate of turds?
Lmao, why are you arguing with the guy, it is what they call it regardless
Neat
Back in the day, there was way more than there is now.
How much?
Apparently like a third or some shit. Enough for it to have become a shorthand in Germany and spread elsewhere.
You just made that up on the spot. Total lie.
I just googled.
Petrol is the dumbest name. Gasoline is a particular formulation of petroleum (oil). Petrol just means that you've got a product made from petroleum, so plastic could also be petrol as is diesel.
The term "gasoline" appears to be something like soccer. The term originates in the UK and then migrates to the US while the British start to use a different name from the one they coined.
To make things more interesting there are to potential sources for the term "gasoline" both of which are brand names. "Gasolene" shows up in the British racing circuit as a preferred brand name and "Casoline" shows up as a common fuel station in the UK.
And vaseline
Na, Petr-ol = "rock spirits", the -ol suffix coming from alcohol (the analogy being alcohol is a distilled product like petrol is distilled from crude oil) Petr-oleum = "rock oil", oleum meaning oil as in cooking oil
The reason places like SEA, China or Nigeria arent listed is likely due to their languages not having a word thats on par with gas, petrol and such so its their own word, making only them have that word.
Generally maps like this will put nations as "other" if their the only one on the list for that word.
Nigerians call gas petrol and gas stations are filling stations
Wait then why the fuck isnt it listed then? thats stupid.
No idea but Nigerians do tend to use the British words and spellings for things
Vietnam should be essence because xang is derived from it
You can't.
Essence ?
Maybe it's like essential oils.
"Essence of shale"
Loll that fresh gasoline smell
"The scent of lush forests and jungles, carefully allowed to season and mature for 300 million years"
Essence.
It’s is odd China is not listed. Maybe they couldn’t confirm the term used or they use more than one?
I imagine they use many variants.
EDIT: just from 2 seconds of googling i found 4 different Chinese words, all with different translations, all with multiple ways of representing the words depending on context of word use. I 100% understand why they didnt say “china uses this word” because there are so many people in china to say EVERYONE uses this one word would be ignorant to the remaining MAJORITY which are split between other variants. No single word outweighs the combined % of all other words.
And only they call it that
"Chinese" is also like 10+ mutually unintelligible languages that the CCP copes into pretending are just dialects of a single Chinese Language. It's like somebody combining all the Romance (which are collectively more closely related than the Sinitic Languages) or Germanic languages (including English, Dutch, and the Nordic Languages) and saying they're just dialects of Romantic or German
Different variants plus not many other countries use the same name
In this context it probably just means it's unique. You can group the others, which is what makes the graph useful in the first place, but countries that use something that nobody else uses just get grouped together. Otherwise you'd need a ton of colors, a massive legend, etc - while really what you're trying to communicate here are groups of countries sharing the same word.
Anyone complaining about america-centrism in this context is just a regard.
Romanian has Naphtha as well.
I have more problem with Greenland, n Korea, Afghanistan and s Sudan...
Like what - we're going to paint them in "we don't have data" color? It's not possible to "not have data", unless they never, ever mentioned the benzene at all, which is just not case xD Also Greenlanders literally speak Danish, if I'm not mistaken. Why they're in this color.
Oh, I forgot Western Sahara...
"Yo bro, lets go fill up on some Benzene"
A decent chunk of the world does just that. Or "petrol". People in Australia think "gas" is weird and makes no sense.
Because it’s in chinese lol and doesn’t use the alphabet system
Chinese use translations for basically all foreign words, so its just the chinese word and no other countries use it
This map is completely inaccurate.
What are mistakes? It seems mostly accurate to me...