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   small circle 🕊 in calmness (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 15:07:01 JST small circle 🕊 in calmness

   • Natasha Jay :mastodon:

   @Natasha_Jay superb.

   Are they called "desire paths" in English, or is that wordplay for the title? In Dutch we call them elephants paths.

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     • Natasha Jay :mastodon:

     @smallcircles @Natasha_Jay One data point: It's the canonical Wikipedia term.

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_p…

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     small circle 🕊 in calmness (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 15:46:35 JST small circle 🕊 in calmness

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     • Natasha Jay :mastodon:

     @clacke @Natasha_Jay

     Thanks. Also looked up the #Dutch version where "elephants' path" is indeed 'official'.

     #French: chemin de l’âne

     #English: desire line or desire path

     #German: Trampelpfad

     https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olifantenpad

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