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Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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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?

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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AFAIK, the Elbe doesn't drain into lake superior.

They'd probably call it Über-See over there.

I realize you’re joking, but Übersee is a german word that denotes everything across the ocean. (Der See => the lake. Die See => the ocean)

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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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.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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> "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

Huh, so is it just a rhyme? The translation definitely makes it sound like it was originally a euphemism, if only because it seems such a strange thing to write :)

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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post #35

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.

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.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You'd have to carve it fairly deep into the rock.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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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…

>So, who are you quoting when you use the phrase 'record breaking drought'

Quoting the article on which this comment is being made.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Clearly not. When you just dismiss any records that are below the current drought, then all droughts can become record breaking.
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