Hi all,
We are traveling around Svalbard and are scheduled to have two Zodiac trips today, one a cruise along the glaciers where we are, and another after lunch to see WALRUSES (walri).
This far north we have very poor ship internet, and it’s very slow. I am unable to post photos, which is a bummer. But I am taking as many as usual, and will reprise our trip photographically either when I get to Iceland or back to Chicago.
It’s a wonderful ship with, I think, only about 140 passengers (it holds 200) and many amenities. The food is good, the crew is friendly and, at this latitude we have encountered zero turbulence.
Matthew is in charge of posting Hili dialogues for a while as I cannot send photos.
On to the glaciers and walri!
Enjoy! I am so jealous!!!!!
Maria
Wow. Zodiacs and 7C surface sea water temp today in Svalbard. That should be bracing.
Well I’ll be – “Walrus” is a Dutch word!
Do I don’t know the “correct” pluralization – I bet probably just whatever sounds good in your language!
Yes, it was probably ‘whale horse’ in Germanic and Scandinavian languages.
I strongly agree with your second paragraph. Once you start using the ‘original’ (itself a problematic concept) language plural form, you discover that there are several different case-dependent forms which English has almost entirely simplified into extinction, thank goodness!
Wow – I seem to recall “whale horse” from somewhere – BTW my sentence had a typo – “Do”, I think –
Cheers
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