The linkAnd melting the ice over it.
It comes down to ‘nobody knows what will happen.’
But it is now pretty well officially erupting.
The linkAnd melting the ice over it.
It comes down to ‘nobody knows what will happen.’
But it is now pretty well officially erupting.
And for the record it’s “Bartha…”, not “Barda…”.
It’s probably best transliterated dh from the barred d eth, which is a voiced dental fricative, like the, that instead of voiceless like thin, theta.
That barred d, uppercase and lowercase, is a bear to find and type on Windows or Macintosh. The thorn upper and lowercase, for the unvoiced version thin, thick, theta, is also harder to type.
Unfortunately, they still make using accented characters and many other special characters a real pain in the posterior, for those who need them.
All that aside — I am very glad I don’t live where a volcano is likely to go off.
In the words of Jimmy Buffett, “I don’ know where I’m a-gonna go when de volcano blow!”
Here, hurricanes are the Big Bad for weather and natural phenomena. But geologically speaking, most of Texas up through the center of the state was once under an inland sea.
I’m not sure just how to pronounce it. “In Icelandic, ð represents a (usually apical) voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative [ð̠], similar to the th in English “them”,” according to Wikipedia. In my West Coast accent, the “th” in “them” isn’t hardly voiced. Nevertheless, doesn’t seem like the heavily voiced “d” I’ve heard from newsreaders is right.
Sigkatlar,jökulhlaup — English be doing a little linguistic borrowing again. . . I sincerely hope we’re not in for some major shenanigans from Barthabungaa or any of the other Icelandic volcanos. Apart from what it’d do to Iceland and it’s folks, which would be bad enough, a big ash plume screws up air traffic, and we’re having enough fun and games with the weather without a couple cubic globs of ash lofted into the atmosphere.
This from the news: A small eruption has occurred north of Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano after nearly two weeks of earthquakes in the region but no volcanic ash has been detected, authorities said on Friday.
I really ought to write out a bit of alphabetic history on how we got in English from Germanic runes through the Latin alphabet with a few added Saxon letters, and then into our modern usage. That goes from the Germanic runes used by the Anglo-Saxons, through Christianization, then through the Norman Conquest and some French and medieval scribal oddities (OK, a lot of oddities), and into the early Modern period when things began to settle into our current mess of a standard. It gets into scribal habits and language change, religious and national conquests, and a little bit into the rise of tchnology and education.
It’s quieted down – it was just the dike getting a bit close to the surface: set off a bunch of steam and a little lava. The main act hasn’t started, and might not start for months.
Pictures here.