Nungali Posted December 8 (edited) Australian desert dragon ; Thorny Devils ( ' Moloch horridus ' ) are really small but a wonderful lizard . You can put your hand under them , under the sand and scoop them up . They dont seem to mind and dont move while you do it, or maybe just a bit . On your hand they just sit there, maybe cock their head to look at you . It is illegeal to 'interfere' or touch them .... but I was with an indigenous elder and he instructed me to to do it as it was a desert sand 'roadway ' , so we moved them to safety . Curious little fellahs Edited December 8 by Nungali 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Foote Posted December 10 (edited) On 11/15/2025 at 4:08 PM, Taomeow said: Not a snob. I know exactly where you're coming from. I think I think (sic) mostly in 2, but for most of the rest of the languages I've been exposed to, my mind created a common file titled "Foreign languages," dumped everything there indiscriminately, and when stuff from that file interferes with the 2 legit ones, it's not pretty. Not with spelling (although shit happens of course) but with spoken words, especially proper names. The thing is, if an English word is a borrowing from one of those other languages for which I know their proprietary pronunciation rules but not necessarily the English rendition thereof, I tend to stress and enunciate it the way it is stressed and enunciated in the language it came from. Sometimes I really don't know that it's pronounced differently in English from its source language, and sometimes I just can't make myself mutilate it like that. It physically hurts me to have to say Mo-di-GLI-ani or REmy MARtin or DesDEmona, let alone NAbokov. And native speakers never tire of correcting me... I don't know why that made me laugh... "T'aint funny, McGee!" Edited December 10 by Mark Foote 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted Saturday at 12:15 AM (edited) 'Europe's Atlantis ' : Doggerland , , a vast fertile country with hills, rivers , settlements that existed during the ice age which gradually sank beneath the waves and was finished off by tsunami ( the Storegga event ) . * side note , see the blue 'lake' near 2 ; that and the water behind it , as the sea level rose , the valley between British Isles and Europe had all this water rushing down it and carving out the English Channel ....... a sight to behold ! https://medium.com/@tudorfinneran/doggerland-europes-atlantis-02d6a70e2507 Edited Saturday at 12:18 AM by Nungali 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
