"You Beauty" as we say in Australia
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Dear Vivaldi people. G'day. Thank you for some hope of a decent working browser for the rest of us. To John and friends "good on you". To the whingers and the impatient. sorry you feel that way, can you do any better. Have been "operatic"so to speak since ver 6.xx. If this in the wrong forum mods please remove. Have a good 1. Later.
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Welcome to the forum!
Hopefully to be 'operatic' isn't such a serious condition and this disease is belonging to the curable ones!
G'day (haven't seen this before) to you too!
Later?? Don't forget: in the long run we are all dead!
Ah - slightly puzzled by idiomatic Australian English, eh? "G'day" means "good day" and can mean "hello" or "goodbye, have a good day." "Later" means "see you later" or "talk to you later" "until we meet again."
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Yeah. Was actually aware that "G'day" is almost exclusively a greeting - but I didn't want to miss the rare case.
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Me being the picky type, but also hoping to help with understanding, note that we are so laid back that we don't capitalise "g'day", except of course if said in solo or to begin a sentence.
Heh, heh. Didn't actually mean to capitalize it. My reflexes in releasing the shift key were just a bit slow. Inadvertent caps, especially after a quotation mark, parenthesis, or special character, are sometimes an offshoot of my typing style. I touch-type at over 60 wpm, and unfortunately don't always go back and make sure that my fingers actually typed what my primary motor cortex thought it was generating.
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Don't you mean trans-Pacific? :cheer: :ohmy: :evil:
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:lol:
OK, a tiny window into how my mind works: Without doing ANY research on this subject, you say "oceanic" and it generates a stream of consciousness like so - Pacific? Whoever named it must have observed it for several days running and noticed it to be "peaceful," that is to say gentle surf, slow tides, sometimes nearly glassy surface - ie, whoever named it did so from the California coast. But what is with this "peaceful" characterization? Peaceful as compared to what? The Atlantic Ocean, of course, which is decidedly more turbulent next to shore than the Pacific. Why would that be? The earth's rotation, of course. The earth spins from west to east, making the sun rise in the east, and that spin accelerates Atlantic motion toward the shore in the Americas, while decelerating Pacific motion toward the shore, making them respectively more turbulent and more peaceful. Speaking of which, where did the name "Atlantic" come from? I posit it must have been named by the Greeks, after the titan Atlas, who held up the sky.
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Atlas retired with the end of the Greek empire. It appears a consortium or other gods, demigods and other ethereal entities were hired to fill the vacancy, and they are, by committee, holding up the sky as we speak. (parenthetic note - do you find it odd that illustrations of Atlas typically show him holding the EARTH rather than the SKY on his shoulders? What's with that?)
I continue to hold that the Coriolis effect is majorly responsible for the tidal and surf effects of the respective oceans vis a vis the Americas BUT, having now looked it up, I find that Magellan named the ocean because when he got into it, he had a nicer trip than when he had been in the Atlantic. It was purely circumstantial. So it was named after the trip, not the coastal observations. My bad.
It is still true in my opinion that the rotation of the earth versus the orbit of the moon DOES make western coasts, on average, calmer than eastern coasts. This is, of course, ON AVERAGE. For instance, "tropical storms," "typhoons," "tidal waves," etc. are typically features of the eastern exposure of this or that continent moreso than the western coasts.
See also: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/tides/tides07_cycles.html
So I'm half right (as to the scientific part), and half wrong (as to the historic part). I'll take 50% correctness for what is essentially intuition, any day - especially as it relates to what can or cannot be scientifically verified.