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Re: More on the new pliosaur
Quoting Danvarner@aol.com:
Here's an excellent website about the new find from the University of Oslo:
http://www.nhm.uio.no/pliosaurus/english/index.html
In case anyone's interested, now that I have my dictionary at hand, I
can clear up those passages I wasn't sure about before:
<<Etter forrige ekspedisjon i 2004 var forventningene til funn skyhøye.
Dette viste seg å holde stikk og området sør for Diabasodden er nå
allerede blant de fire beste stedene i verden for funn av marine øgler.
I løpet av 11 heseblesende dager ble det funnet og kartlagt 28 fossile
skjeletter av havlevende øgler, i størrelse fra et par meter til opp
mot ti meter.>>
'After an earlier expedition in 2004, expectations of discovery were
sky-high. This proved to hold true, and the area south of Diabasodden
is now already among the four best places in the world for finds of
marine reptiles. In the course of eleven breathless days, 28 fossil
skeletons of sea-living reptiles were found and mapped, ranging in size
from a couple of meters up to ten meters.'
<<27 av skjelettene var som forventet av former forskerne hadde sett
lignende til i 2004...Den grove knokkelstrukturen og størrelsen på
virvlene pekte mot ønskedrømmen ? et av de aller største rovdyrene som
har levd.>>
'27 of the skeletons were, as expected, of forms to which researchers
had seen comparable things in 2004...The coarse structure of the bone
and the size of the vertebrae pointed to their wildest dream - one of
the very largest predators that has ever lived.'
Thanks to HP Marjanovic on the translation of "grov" 'coarse'. It's
also cognate to English "gruff", BTW.
--
Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan
"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
--Edwin H. Land