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"If you see me, you will weep. So barren was our ocean in 2018."
If only, the Reef is likely irreversibly dying by now.
Any other applications?
> "Neplac holka, nenarikej, kdyz je sucho, pole strikej." (Don't cry, girl, don't fret. When it's dry, just spray your field wet.) Is this some weird Czech euphemism?
Pedantic quibbling: is "ancient societies" a proper designation for 15th century Europe?
I guess if the Great Barrier Reef starts recovering, we could etch some dire warning into the rock about to be covered by life, to be seen the next time things get this bad. "If you see me, you will weep. So barren was our ocean in 2018." If only, the Reef is likely irreversibly dying by now. Any other applications?
> "Neplac holka, nenarikej, kdyz je sucho, pole strikej." (Don't cry, girl, don't fret. When it's dry, just spray your field wet.) Is this some weird Czech euphemism?
no, it doesn't work in original
I guess if the Great Barrier Reef starts recovering, we could etch some dire warning into the rock about to be covered by life, to be seen the next time things get this bad. "If you see me, you will weep. So barren was our ocean in 2018." If only, the Reef is likely irreversibly dying by now. Any other applications?
Areas that used to be covered by glaciers.
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Areas that used to be covered by glaciers.
Seems like in front of a glacier's path when it's about to start growing is a bad place to put something that you want to survive for future generations to read.
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Would you include these stones as data? They're certainly a record of low water levels.
A "record" has multiple shades of meaning. For example, temperature records must be officially observed, using (sufficiently) modern weather instrumentation. That's why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records says "remotely sensed observations such as satellite measurements, since those values are not considered official records." This thread spun off into pedantry when you used the phrase "record break…
Quoting the article on which this comment is being made.
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Would you include these stones as data? They're certainly a record of low water levels.
No, they are not the record being referred to here.