On 7 Maijs, 05:25, lorad...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On May 6, 2:32 am, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > <lorad...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>news:1fc44075-4186-4224-b0a4-97c48e575681@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > For educational purposes:
>
> > > The cause of the
> > > accident has not been determined.
>
> > It seems that the captain had turned the ****p too soon in order to
make =
it
> > easier for the passengers to take pictures of the lighthouse at
Kolkasra=
gs.
>
> > I hope the pictures turned out well. Since the ****p didn't.
>
> > In our media there has been confusion about what to call the sound
betwe=
en
> > Kurzeme and Saaremaa. Some call it 'Irben salmi' after its Latvian
name
> > 'Irbes =F0aurums' (irbe meaning partridge), and some use 'Kuurin
kurkku'=
after
> > the Estonian 'Kura kurk' (Couronian gorge).
>
> '=F0aurums' means 'narrow (passageway)'.. or it could be translated as
> 'channel'
The most common word is "strait."
> correct on the 'irbe'.. not very informed on the ornithology.. I had
> guessed that they were something like sandpipers.. thanks. (It's a
> pain to match up corresponding flora and fauna - if there's even a
> match)
It's much easier than it used to be -- for birds, try sites like
http://www.putni.lv/index_citaslapp.htm
With the Latin names, I've had
little difficulty lately even with obscure flora or fauna.
> (I am thinking of introducing Fireflies and Hummingbirds to the
> Baltics)
Fireflies and other creatures that don't exist here are indeed a
problem (the usual dictionary translation of "firefly" is
"j=E2=F2t=E2rpi=F2=F0" ["jantarpins"], but that is more correctly a
glow-wor=
m --
they do not fly). Such similar but quite different beings can cause a
lot of confusion -- I kept waiting for the "j=E2=F2t=E2rpi=F2i" to take
off =
in
my first summer here, to everyone's amusement...
A "hummingbird is a "kolibri."
Re the ****p -- according to the latest re****ts, the first mate is to
blame (for giving the wrong orders to the... "st=FBrmanis"; "helmsman"?
Freeing the vessel will run to a million euros, and I don't think that
includes the participation of (pretty much the entire) Latvian Navy.
Vysu lobu,
/P
http://lettonica.blogspot.com/
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