Do Lake Names Reflect Their Properties?
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Do Lake Names Reflect Their Properties?
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#2What, no brown lakes? In Finland there are 121 lakes called "Paskalampi", lit. "Shit Lake".
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=paskalampi#map=18...
Then again, at least this is more descriptive than the 13 called Vesijärvi, or "Water Lake".
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#3During a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in my youth, we portaged through Party Lake. I am sad to report no revelry occurred.
However, Mud Lake definitely lived up to its name.
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#4Well, here in Massachusetts we have Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, which doesn't describe its color but does mean "lake divided by islands" and is a pretty accurate, if long winded, description of it.
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#5What, no brown lakes? In Finland there are 121 lakes called "Paskalampi", lit. "Shit Lake". https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=paskalampi#map=18... Then again, at least this is more descriptive than the 13 called Vesijärvi, or "Water Lake".
So in "Paskalampi" and "Vesijärvi", which part of it means "lake"? Naively (I have obviously no clue about finnish), I would have expected some syllables (or token in modern LLM terminology) to occur in both names (i.e. representing the "lake" part).
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#6The color of a lake in satellite view depends on the satellite's viewing angle (which depends on the satellite's trajectory and the lake's location), the angle of the sun (which depends on the same things plus the time and date the image was taken), the weather, the satellite's sensors (false color is a thing), and how the images are processed before publishing. Overall I think it's almost impossible to estimate the "true" color of a lake from public satellite images, even if you used all pixels instead of just one.
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#7What, no brown lakes? In Finland there are 121 lakes called "Paskalampi", lit. "Shit Lake". https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=paskalampi#map=18... Then again, at least this is more descriptive than the 13 called Vesijärvi, or "Water Lake".
So in "Paskalampi" and "Vesijärvi", which part of it means "lake"? Naively (I have obviously no clue about finnish), I would have expected some syllables (or token in modern LLM terminology) to occur in both names (i.e. representing the "lake" part).
"Lampi" means "pond", "järvi" means "lake"
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#8There is Nuclear lake on the Appalachian trail in Dutchess county, NY. Its name is or is not accidental, depending on how you look at it.
https://www.scenichudson.org/explore-the-valley/outdoor-adve...
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#9John Prine’s song “Lake Marie” is a great song and story of a lake and its name.
Bob Dylan ranks it as his favorite Prine song.
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#10What, no brown lakes? In Finland there are 121 lakes called "Paskalampi", lit. "Shit Lake". https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=paskalampi#map=18... Then again, at least this is more descriptive than the 13 called Vesijärvi, or "Water Lake".
So in "Paskalampi" and "Vesijärvi", which part of it means "lake"? Naively (I have obviously no clue about finnish), I would have expected some syllables (or token in modern LLM terminology) to occur in both names (i.e. representing the "lake" part).
In linguistics, the term would be "morpheme"