#cartography table

[minecraft-tournament]

ROUND 1 - Match 300 of 500 - Dark Oak Door vs. Cartography Table

The wooden door is a variant of the door made of wood that can be opened and closed by the player without redstone.

A cartography table is a utility block used for cloning, zooming out, and locking maps. It also serves as a cartographer's job site block.

Which block is better?

Dark Oak Door

Cartography Table

Voting ended onApr 19

[wengine]

(Borrowed with permission from The Public Archive of World History, paper draft excerpt by an unknown scholar, likely written before the modern era but after the fall of the Ancient Capital. Contact [email protected] for more information.)

[daily-mc-block]

Cartography Table

[mindcraftblocks]

cartography table

[every-block-board]

Every Block Board #75 - Cartography Table

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[littlei-xyz]

Cartography Table

A way to keep your map nice looking while destroying everything around you

[wengine]

After the Elven Religious Schism, it became law that: “No artist, craftsman, hobbyist or citizen shall henceforth imbue or possess the figure drawing or other depictions of sentient beings … with; (a) pupils, or pupil-like symbols; (b) other decoration of the eye outside of approved symbols (such as (i) a waning crescent, (ii) a waxing crescent) or stark white in a cool tone…” This law remained in effect until the fall of the empire Rivendell, despite the somewhat progressive leaning beliefs of the last king, King Scott of the lineage Major.

In the aftermath of such a long and bloody civil war, there was very little motivation behind the enforcement of this ordinance. Unlike the massive push towards book burning and destruction of temples and effigy, tapestries were spared. Often, in the capital and surrounding cities, the whites of the eyes of figures on tapestries were blacked out using a deep blue or navy dye. Despite this being technically against the law, no movement was ever made to change or destroy these pieces, leaving them as peculiar marks of history.

For Aeor following elvish citizens, it was typical to depict the pupil as a golden crescent moon. However, for the multiple Exor following and minority religious elvish peoples in Rivendell, different strategies arose. For Exor followers, the pupil – hemaih (literally “the heart of the eye”) – was an important religious symbol. In flatland elvish autonomous regions, the pupil remained, and the black dot became a symbol of resistance. In more western regions, especially in mountainous region, the traditional embroider-first dye-second style gave way to more subtle inclusion of the pupil. Often they would use horizontal stitches for the white of the eye, and vertical for the pupil, and then not dye it, to be in compliance with the “stark white” required of them. Some other groups used two different colored white threads to embroider complex patterns into the white of the eye.

[wengine]

"By far the most complicated system of honorifics comes from the borderlands region of the Codish [sic] Empire. Utilizing prefixes and suffixes (and infixes in certain dialects), Çotilkan (commonly referred to as Southwestern Codish Dialect) distinguishes on a spectrum between younger and older, respect and disrespect, ally and foe, family and non-family, and more, depending on a complex system of social rules.

Some selected examples:

Studies have found that çotilkan-speaking youth tend to flatten some of these honorifics, depending on who they are speaking to. A study by Dr. Gorgonix that conducted interviews with teens and young adults from the region indicated that while teens are aware of most if not all of these honorifics, regardless of whether they could elaborate on their use cases, recorded conversations with peers showed that most of these honorifics were not being used as described.

For example, a native çotilkan-speaker might describe -lor as an honorific reserved for respected enemies. However, a sixteen year old bilingual participant used it to describe a friend who is a Mythland citizen. When questioned in the post-interview, the participant cited that their mother, also a native çotilkan-speaker, used the honorific to refer to Mythic nationals, and that it was common for people in their town to do the same. When asked if this implied some level of respect or familiarity, the interviewee responded that it was for “people whose family we know.” Additionally, the interviewee elaborated that enemy was “too strong” a term to use to describe usage. When asked what term the participant would use, they responded saying they didn’t know, and then suggested the national-codish word teral, commonly translated as opposite.

Furthermore, in a survey, 47% of çotilkan-speaking youth reported that they don’t use non-family oriented honorifics to distinguish between family members and people they know. Some comments reported that youth reserve non-family honorifics for speaking to elders. In that same survey, a whopping 52% of participants reported avoiding honorifics that imply disrespect. Notably, most of these participants reported being bi- or multilingual. It is worth mentioning that national-codish does not have honorifics that denote disrespect, whereas national-mythic does not use honorifics at all. (These two languages had the highest rates of bilingualism with Çotilkan.) 

Surveys conducted specifically in Mythland had even more stark results. 67% of native çotilkan-speaking youth only use a handful of honorifics; 42% of those only use honorifics for elders, family members, and government officials; 20% of those only use honorifics in front of elders and government officials. Even more shocking, 15% of respondents report never using honorifics."

excerpt from "Tug-of-War: a linguist's approach to examining the erasure of individual cultures in the borderlands of the Cod and Mythic Empires" by Honesty Growing