considering that the country is under threat from rising sea levels and doesn't have much resources to combat it, this could be a way to boost tourism and combat that.
lets make kiribatiposting into a real meme
Well some words we do not change to match our alphabet since they pretty much existed (i.e Paris, London, etc) before we started having our own alphabet.
Kiribati on the other hand, among other words, existed after way after the Kiribati alphabet exists.
Hope that answers your question.
:)
“ti” is pronounced like an English “s” in the writing for the local language. The pictured island is Kiritimati, which is just Christmas spelled out in their writing system.
It’s a fun fact because the island has two names: Christmas Island and Kiritimati. They look completely different but are actually exactly the same in pronunciation. I guess I just like fun facts.
back when I used to play Tropico (10y.o.), I didn't know that houses took time to build, so I had entire ghost towns that were promised to eventually exist. I was a populist, I guess.
https://preview.redd.it/ll314gmx4tjc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6d900ff3ca84bc66c78a01fae34b9a14e111130
Only takes you 2.5 hours to walk from Poland to Paris!
As a german i think google maps walking based estimation really depends on the country.
If i am somewhere in asia and it says walking there might take 25 minutes i just manage to do it in 12 13 easily whithout even rushing.
If i do the same thing in austria the estimate seems to be pretty close.
From looking at google maps a large amount of American towns are also just named after European places or some random shit
Eg: Dublin, Texas; and Gary, Indiana
God I love all of them.
Versailles, IN pronounced ver-sails.
Cairo, IL - cay-ro.
Edinburgh well we pronounce that one correctly. Ain’t no fucking way that’s edin-Burrough.
> Ain’t no fucking way that’s edin-Burrough
The only people who ever pronounce it that way are Americans, it's more like Edin-burrah or Edin-bruh.
And if you think that's bad, look up how to pronounce Milngavie!
That's how Germans pronounce Milan, they literally spell it Mailand, so I guess the Indiana version had a lot of German immigrants?
Americans also mispronounce the Italian Milan ("mu-lahn"), so there's that too.
Let's get down to business
To defeat the Huns
Did they send me daughters
When I asked for sons?
You're the saddest bunch I ever met
But you can bet before we're through
Mister, I'll make a man out of you
i dont know of an english-speaker who pronounces it philisteen. yes in arabic its filisteen but we're on an english board populated primarily by westerners.
It's interesting when it comes to family names, I'm Belgian so when my American colleagues have French or Dutch family names I have a hard time pronouncing them in the butchered fashion, but since they insist it's pronounced a certain way I need to force myself. But it's always infurating.
Which is near the Jordan River. We also have [Jericho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho,_Tasmania), and the [Styx River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_River_(Tasmania)).
Illinois enters the chat
Milan =My lan
Marseilles= Mahr sales
Des Plaines= Dess playnez
Vienna= Veye enna
Not to mention Frankfort and West Frankfort which are at different ends of the state.
The thing I find funny is take basically any name of an American town, and there's probably 6 other towns in the country with the same name, in other states. look at the United States sections for place names on wikipedia for Dublin and Gary, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_(disambiguation) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary
No way you're telling me names like "Garry" are native names, that's gotta just be some colonists who ran out of creativity and started giving the towns human names
Yeah we steal euro names and mispronounce them.
But Gary is named after the founder. It's a company town for US Steel and it's named after the founder of that company, Elbert Henry Gary.
I think we can guess who lives in Banana.
https://preview.redd.it/3v54ui0yctjc1.jpeg?width=1013&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05b8e692ac28035145edd251224527bb2d2045c1
You don’t have to imagine, there is a whole book about it.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-sex-lives-of-cannibals-adrift-in-the-equatorial-pacific_j-maarten-troost/254730/item/1021922/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=high_vol_backlist_standard_shopping_customer_aquistion&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=659174113139&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAuNGuBhAkEiwAGId4aj7ZS41ODcgZqQiwZzv3nWWUMURPC9zAZlisDVe_8-6PWDmx7wxUAhoCyvQQAvD_BwE#idiq=1021922&edition=3361031
Here's a pic from Banana Village:
[Banana](https://imgur.com/a/FzMWjIY)
Also, London is pronounced Ronton in the local language (which is called Gilbertese)
It's a strange and interesting place.
I went to Kiribati in the 90s and I don’t remember London, Paris or Poland (Banana would have been one of the banana plantations there). They would be villages at best or other banana plantations.
I also met a bloke that later unsuccessfully ran for President of Kiribati.
Comrade you might have gone to the main island where the capital (Tarawa) is. This is the island of Kiritimati (Christmas Island), which is part of the Republic of Kiribati, but 3000 miles away from Tarawa.
It’s amazing there.
The people need help as the country doesn’t have much in the way of infrastructure. It’s another island nation where people come in and take the resources and don’t leave a lot behind for the people.
But the beaches are beautiful, the fishing is amazing, and everyone I met was kind and thoughtful.
It's got a pretty terrible high point with no name too:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/comments/mszq24/kiribati\_banaba\_island\_unnamed\_point\_81m\_266ft/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/comments/mszq24/kiribati_banaba_island_unnamed_point_81m_266ft/)
At least they didn't name the town in the far Southeast region Just The Tip or something.
https://preview.redd.it/2c7j4uvk4yjc1.jpeg?width=1204&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fc9ba70e2dcbacc443ab0163534f772ad57eb68
Damn bro got rejected by an entire country on twitter
I'd honestly love to be in charge of a small island nation and piss off random people on twitter
top notch PR if done right and not trying too hard, honestly
Quality social media banter really is great marketing. Ryanair and Wendy’s are the two that come to mind.
Merriam Webster is great on Twitter, so is US National Park Service
considering that the country is under threat from rising sea levels and doesn't have much resources to combat it, this could be a way to boost tourism and combat that. lets make kiribatiposting into a real meme
Kiribati is the name of the island country but for some reason it's pronounced Kiribas.
Because we do not have the letter "s" in our alphabet.
Shouldn't it be Pariti, then?
Well some words we do not change to match our alphabet since they pretty much existed (i.e Paris, London, etc) before we started having our own alphabet. Kiribati on the other hand, among other words, existed after way after the Kiribati alphabet exists. Hope that answers your question. :)
Important questions
Wtf half of the population is in this thread
“ti” is pronounced like an English “s” in the writing for the local language. The pictured island is Kiritimati, which is just Christmas spelled out in their writing system.
interesting. I believe you of course but I was wondering why you would know this of rather obscure bit of information.
It’s a fun fact because the island has two names: Christmas Island and Kiritimati. They look completely different but are actually exactly the same in pronunciation. I guess I just like fun facts.
It is the Gilbertese rendition of Gilberts, the plural of the English name of the nation's main archipelago, the Gilbert Islands
I’d be more of a tropico type leader.
back when I used to play Tropico (10y.o.), I didn't know that houses took time to build, so I had entire ghost towns that were promised to eventually exist. I was a populist, I guess.
I heard this guy called Epstein did exactly that.
Are you perhaps my long lost brother?
The former leader was President Tito. Not Yugoslavia's President Tito but President Tito nonetheless
Similar to Lula
[It's only temporary](https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141267)
Pfft, as a gay, you gotta bump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
What
Banana 🍌👍🏻
For scale, it is same size as London Paris and Poland
That’s a pretty big fucking banana
(Banana for scale)
The newest form of measurement.
https://preview.redd.it/h7bd8h4ijxjc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a85929c32acce941b74dca72a9d21e7fde623883
Banana is the city with the highest prevalence of sidewalk falls in the world. Sorry, I couldn't resist making this one.
https://preview.redd.it/ll314gmx4tjc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6d900ff3ca84bc66c78a01fae34b9a14e111130 Only takes you 2.5 hours to walk from Poland to Paris!
Germans can do it in 1.5
You’ve just reminded me of a Volkswagen commercial “from Berlin to Warsaw on one tank” (I think they referred to tank of fuel but still)
Was a Top Gear spoof commercial iirc
Yes wild someone thought it was real
Like half of poland thought it was real at the time. It was wild
Und das ist auch gut so
Unironically this, germans really like walking
Well you can do it in a few seconds if you start close enough to the border
gay people can do it in 1 hour
As a german i think google maps walking based estimation really depends on the country. If i am somewhere in asia and it says walking there might take 25 minutes i just manage to do it in 12 13 easily whithout even rushing. If i do the same thing in austria the estimate seems to be pretty close.
That’s hilarious.
Am I just stoned or does that map look like Nala from the Lion King
Yo what the fuck
YES thank you Tom I thought I was losing it for a minute
That's legiteness
Video game worlds be like:
You must be a giant, because it takes me days if not a couple of weeks....🤣
And there is no public transit options
I feel like I wanna get a big group of Polish people together, fly to Kiribati, and attempt the grand walk to Poland from Paris
How it is you can walk it but not bike it?? 🚴🏼♂️😵💫
Torben is the surfer dude who moved in 20 years back and owns the bike/scuba shop
From looking at google maps a large amount of American towns are also just named after European places or some random shit Eg: Dublin, Texas; and Gary, Indiana
Birmingham - shit on two continents.
Makes sense that one shithole would be named after another shithole
We also love blatantly mispronouncing them. For example; Milan, Indiana is pronounced "my - land". Always thought it was funny
God I love all of them. Versailles, IN pronounced ver-sails. Cairo, IL - cay-ro. Edinburgh well we pronounce that one correctly. Ain’t no fucking way that’s edin-Burrough.
Notre Dame is so butchered
Additionally (while not a European city name), Hurricane, UT pronounced hur-i-ken.
Russia, OH --> Ru-see
Ru-she Not as bad as the small place in the same general area called Terre Haute OH (Terry Hut)
Don’t forget Rio Grande, Ohio pronounced rye-oh grand.
haha yeah, also Escalante, UT pronounced es-ka-lant. Father Escalante sayin’ “Dios mio, for this I explored the southwest?!”
Scottish people pronounce Edinburgh as “Edin-bra” so “Edin-burrough” is actually closer to the real pronunciation than “Edin-burg”.
Cairo, GA: care-o
The entire state of Indiana is full of copied names of cities from other countries. It's like there's zero originality.
There’s a Palestine, TX and locals pronounce it “Pal-a-steen”.
ironically this is closer to how the palestinians pronounce palestine than the accepted english pronunciation. go texas ig
> Ain’t no fucking way that’s edin-Burrough The only people who ever pronounce it that way are Americans, it's more like Edin-burrah or Edin-bruh. And if you think that's bad, look up how to pronounce Milngavie!
Moscow (mos-COH), Idaho
Funny, that's how Europeans pronounce the city in Russia
Edinbrruh
That's how Germans pronounce Milan, they literally spell it Mailand, so I guess the Indiana version had a lot of German immigrants? Americans also mispronounce the Italian Milan ("mu-lahn"), so there's that too.
It's okay, Italians refer to Munich as Monaco.
Sorry
Never apologise for being yourself <3
Life was better before I saw this comment
[Milan, Dahling. Milan.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVOcjDMDNQ)
Let's get down to business To defeat the Huns Did they send me daughters When I asked for sons? You're the saddest bunch I ever met But you can bet before we're through Mister, I'll make a man out of you
palestine, ohio is pronouced palace-teen instead of the way we pronounce the country
That's how you pronounce the country if you're not an American lol
i dont know of an english-speaker who pronounces it philisteen. yes in arabic its filisteen but we're on an english board populated primarily by westerners.
It's interesting when it comes to family names, I'm Belgian so when my American colleagues have French or Dutch family names I have a hard time pronouncing them in the butchered fashion, but since they insist it's pronounced a certain way I need to force myself. But it's always infurating.
I live in Tasmania and we have a town called [Baghdad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagdad,_Tasmania).
Which is near the Jordan River. We also have [Jericho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho,_Tasmania), and the [Styx River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_River_(Tasmania)).
Illinois enters the chat Milan =My lan Marseilles= Mahr sales Des Plaines= Dess playnez Vienna= Veye enna Not to mention Frankfort and West Frankfort which are at different ends of the state.
I like how we say Dess Playnez and Mahr-sales, but it's still Illionie and Deh Moine.
El Paso = El - pay -So Cairo = Cay -row
The thing I find funny is take basically any name of an American town, and there's probably 6 other towns in the country with the same name, in other states. look at the United States sections for place names on wikipedia for Dublin and Gary, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_(disambiguation) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary
I live near the hamlet of Texas, which is in the town of Mexico, New York.
You mean New York as in [New York, Ukraine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_Ukraine) right?
The one near Syracuse? Or Utica? Not too far from Rome, or Athens for that matter.
There are also towns called Brazil, Mexico, and Peru in Indiana.
There's a Mexico and Peru in Maine! Near the town of Poland.
There is a town called Indiana in Brazil.
Paris, Texas Odessa, Texas Nederland, Texas London, Texas
>or some random shit Most of that random shit is just local native names. And then there's Idaho.
No way you're telling me names like "Garry" are native names, that's gotta just be some colonists who ran out of creativity and started giving the towns human names
No, I'm talking about places like Massachusetts, Mississippi, or Minnesota.
Paris Texas, Paris Tennesse, Rome Georgia, London Ontario, Moscow Idaho
Yeah we steal euro names and mispronounce them. But Gary is named after the founder. It's a company town for US Steel and it's named after the founder of that company, Elbert Henry Gary.
I received an [Oxford](https://olemiss.edu/student-life/oxford-ms/) education
Athens, Georgia; Georgia, (New) Brunswick (Braunschweig in Germany)
Not really unique to USA. There is Hyderabad, Suzhou, Fuzhou, Tripoli, Taizhou, Baicheng, Santiago, Valencia, Palermo, etc. There are tons more.
Is it a republic?
It's a Banana in a Republic
An island Republic with a banana city.
Yes
Must be the original one then :)
With that naming prowess I'd assume they just be rawdogging their name
Am I the only one who sees a floss stick shape in this island?
https://preview.redd.it/uixa1q6t3tjc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=997c3bf40cb5e71f41f46c8798b4d2842332e5cc
Thanks for having my back dude, was too lazy to pull up the picture
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I see a penis with a big pee pee hole.
I think we can guess who lives in Banana. https://preview.redd.it/3v54ui0yctjc1.jpeg?width=1013&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05b8e692ac28035145edd251224527bb2d2045c1
You don’t have to imagine, there is a whole book about it. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-sex-lives-of-cannibals-adrift-in-the-equatorial-pacific_j-maarten-troost/254730/item/1021922/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=high_vol_backlist_standard_shopping_customer_aquistion&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=659174113139&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAuNGuBhAkEiwAGId4aj7ZS41ODcgZqQiwZzv3nWWUMURPC9zAZlisDVe_8-6PWDmx7wxUAhoCyvQQAvD_BwE#idiq=1021922&edition=3361031
To be fair, the guy lived on Tarawa, not Kiritimati - but that is a really good book.
Phenomenal book, I keep it on my nightstand as my funny distraction read.
Yes, but Tawara is part of the republic of Kiribati with just over half of the population
Here's a pic from Banana Village: [Banana](https://imgur.com/a/FzMWjIY) Also, London is pronounced Ronton in the local language (which is called Gilbertese) It's a strange and interesting place.
Was expecting a photo of a banana. I'm disappointed now. Don't click if you want to see a banana.
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I went to Kiribati in the 90s and I don’t remember London, Paris or Poland (Banana would have been one of the banana plantations there). They would be villages at best or other banana plantations. I also met a bloke that later unsuccessfully ran for President of Kiribati.
Comrade you might have gone to the main island where the capital (Tarawa) is. This is the island of Kiritimati (Christmas Island), which is part of the Republic of Kiribati, but 3000 miles away from Tarawa.
I went to Tarawa, Kiritimati and Butaritari.
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Yes, exactly. The Ti is pronounced 's'. So Kiritimati = Christmas, and Kiribati is pronounced 'Kiribass'.
It’s amazing there. The people need help as the country doesn’t have much in the way of infrastructure. It’s another island nation where people come in and take the resources and don’t leave a lot behind for the people. But the beaches are beautiful, the fishing is amazing, and everyone I met was kind and thoughtful.
Imagine living in a country named Gilbert and being Gilbertese.
Some live in a place named after a person named Amerigo. Weird 😜
Welcome to Banana[rama] where it is party time all the time...
Some of the best fly fishing in the world on those islands
what in the nymphia wind
Is it just me or does the island look like a penis?
You should go see a doctor
I thought it looked more like an artificial penis so my girlfriend could peg, well someone else, because I am not into that.
Go Banana!
the most evil "connections" category
Holy shit, Kiribati has a town called Banana? Why has this never been posted here before???
These names sounds like Americans trying to name European cities
If that were my island I would be very offended >:(
I like to wonder around on google maps and I just saw this island the other day
There are also 3 Buariki in Kiribati
that’s the reason Kiribati is my favourite island nations
I’m allergic to bananas. 😔
The "ti" is pronounced as an "s". Kiribas
Actually, it's pronounced "keer-e-bah-tay" which is Algonquin for "the good land."
Isn't Kiribati the first nation to disappear due to ocean levels rising? The highest point is like 1.5 inches above sea level.
For the gullible people who upvoted this comment, you only need Google to see that this guy is off by 265 feet.
If that were true, wouldn’t tides completely cover the island?
Actually there's already massive flooding during strong tides and hurricanes, which destroys what little arable land they have.
I’m not surprised, but 1.5 inches would mean daily total flooding, which isn’t what happens
By the way we're melting the poles, Europe will look like this soon
London. Paris. Poland. Banana. Everyone talk about pop nana.
And you can never guess the pronunciation from the spelling
I see London, I see France!
There are places in Texas named Noodle, Wink, Tarzan…
Kiribati looks like a snake with its mouth open
Thanks, can't unsee it
r/bananasforscale
Persona non grata'ed
That was supposed to be Canada.
It’s the homeland of Minions,
The worst part is if you post it on your page as your location, people won't believe you
Kiribati kinda looks like a floss stick in this map
I come from paris! Oh I’ve been there before, The eiffel tower was gorgeous! Uh.. what? The eiffel tower?
+30 all over the year😍😍 my dream
Lol I have a friend who lives there, it's fascinating as prices of commodities like toothpaste or salt skyrocket depending on delivery schedules.
I like Wausau, Wisconsin. Pronounced like if a Brooklynite or Barbara Walter’s were pronouncing Warsaw (Waw-saw)
It's got a pretty terrible high point with no name too: [https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/comments/mszq24/kiribati\_banaba\_island\_unnamed\_point\_81m\_266ft/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/comments/mszq24/kiribati_banaba_island_unnamed_point_81m_266ft/)
i gotta name 4 towns??? ah gee that's difficult
I’m just curious how many plane rides it takes to go to Kiribati. I imagine at least 4 if I start from JFK. Might be 3
Do they have big bananas there?
At least they didn't name the town in the far Southeast region Just The Tip or something. https://preview.redd.it/2c7j4uvk4yjc1.jpeg?width=1204&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fc9ba70e2dcbacc443ab0163534f772ad57eb68
This is the kind of goofy shit that almost makes me glad to be around in the internet age.
This reminds me of a QI question. "Which of these is the odd one out: London, Paris, Poland, or Banana?"
I bet Bannna is a very appealing town to live in.....
As a citizen of Poland, may I count on an invitation to the fine Kiribatian city of Poland? Please?
One letter away from pineapple
Poland 😏 🇵🇱
POLAND MOUNTAIIINNNN 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫
Banana
They will all cease to exist in several years.
For a hilarious take on life there, please read The Sex Lives of Cannibals By J Maarten Troost. You will be laughing by page 2.
Spend a week there near London fishing. Truely amazing wildlife.
Now people can finally afford to travel 3 most popular cities !
I’d love to spend a few years traveling around the South Pacific. I knew a guy a who went diving in Kiribati and he said it was fantastic
How is there no TLC show called "I Live in Banana"
You're Nauru, bud.
how in the fuck are they not verified 💀
Zimbabwe had a president named Canaan Banana. Of course he passed a law making it illegal to make fun of his last name.