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As non-native english speaking person that’s highly fascinating.
I think this is more to do with scientists’ definitions than English in general. See also: what is and isn’t a nut, what is and isn’t a vegetable, is there such thing as a fish.
How am I supposed to estimate the pH value of a given wetland area without specialised equipment?
- Take a sip. Did you trip balls? Acid.
- Take a red wire, black wire, and a clock. Can you power the clock? Alkaline.
Duh.
Just call it something online, if people don’t immediately pop out of nowhere to correct you, then you’re probably right.
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Determine whether it’s a swamp or a marsh.
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Tell someone else you did your part, now it’s their turn.
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What, you don’t carry pH test strips around as a matter of routine? /s
Lick it. Just a little bit. Just a little snaky lick…
Learn botany. You can tell the approximate pH from the species of plants growing there.
Neat! Didn’t know that.
Maybe you can find some red cabbage growing nearby?
Help, I’m stuck in a wetland, but I didn’t bring my litmus test!
Sorry, I’m looking for you in the bog but you’re not there
I forgot already before I started writing this comment
I’ve never heard of a Fen before
That’s cuz ya basic like one :)
Fen the wetland type or fen the plural of (sci fi/fantasy) fan? Or had you heard of neither?
Sounds like it could be the name of a Hobbit. But no, never heard the word used before. I’m from Georgia and live in Virginia. Never been to a mountain wetland or to middle earth
I think I have only heard the term in:
- The plural of fan: sci fi stories set in the distant future of 1990, also in early internet fandom
- The wetland: stories from the UK, embedded in British place names, having a British parent
I wonder what sort of wetland my local one is, and the nearby swampy grasslands. Both are watered by rain or snowmelt. Both are marked as wetlands on maps
You are not reading enough fantasy books, then.
That’s because the old Something Awful forums ruined fantasy books back for me in the early 2000’s when the big series was ASOIAF. Going from GRRM to Sanderson, Hobbs, Abercrombie etc… just doesn’t hit the same. It’s like going from crack to whippets.
… not wrong.
Martin is crap compared to Sanderson
We can go settle this in the parking lot
Nah let’s have a space dogfight about it. I’ll pilot one of Sanderson’s many awesome spaceships, and you pilot something Martin wrote.
It feels so liberating to hear it just said out loud
So, it would be a swampy bog and a marshy fen, but not a boggy swamp or a fenny marsh?
PREACH! MUTHAFUKA!!!
LOUDER, FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BOG!
How does this make you feel:
https://www.ywt.org.uk/nature-reserves/fen-bog-nature-reserve
Pretty hecking neutral
Huh, TIL
And me still not giving a Fuck…
I fucking hate Tumblr users
i love when scientists take a swamp of arbitrary language terms and decide to impose some arbitrary specific meanings on them for purposes of their specific discipline and then convince people who don’t really get how language works (i.e. most people) that the definitions are authoritative. it’s fun to watch the cognitive dissonance when this collides with actual usage and people get all angry and righteous.
Thanks crossword puzzles!
These come up pretty often for some reason.
Especially Fen!
Epee, Oreo, era, isle, ore… Lol
Eel, ole, issa, rae, ssn… Lol
Further evidence that the Marshbadge and the Soulbadge were accidentally switched.
