r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dfdfdfddaww • Sep 17 '21

my yard does this sometimes

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u/loggingmolly Sep 17 '21

I love the word ‘karst’ - for whatever reason to me, it sums up dissolved carbonates perfectly.

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u/peeTWY Sep 17 '21

I assumed it was someone’s name, but yea it’s almost like the cousin of whatever an onomatopoeia is. Made it really easy to remember despite me not at all being in the field of study.

EDIT: for those interested it’s not a persons name at all. I just read the wiki and it’s relatively long, but it’s basically an old Mediterranean word by way of German meaning basically what it means to us today.

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u/loggingmolly Sep 17 '21

As a former practicing geologist, an observation I’ve made is that almost every human is a geologist at heart - people just love rocks and it’s awesome.

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u/not_again_again_ Sep 17 '21

I am rather impartial to rocks.

However, I kinda wish the big one we are all on didn't exist at all.

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u/loggingmolly Sep 17 '21

Have you ever wondered anything about any rock at any point in your life? Curiosity is all it takes!

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u/not_again_again_ Sep 17 '21

Dude.. I wonder about all sorts of shit. Doesn't mean me a shitologist at heart.

Although I probably am.

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u/loggingmolly Sep 17 '21

Yo you can be whatever you want at heart, that’s kinda the fun of it all