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So what do you call a wetland that has a neutral pH and mixed vegitation?
Just from what I found, swamps are wetlands with woody vegetation being what DOMINATLY inhibits it. So if it’s mixed, find out what there is more of. If it’s 50/50, I guess the universe collapses.
And a wetland with a neutral ph is just called a neutral wetland.
Everything is a wetland.
Thanks crossword puzzles!
These come up pretty often for some reason.
Especially Fen!
Epee, Oreo, era, isle, ore… Lol
i love when scientists take a swamp of arbitrary language terms and decide to impose some arbitrary specific meanings on them for purposes of their specific discipline and then convince people who don’t really get how language works (i.e. most people) that the definitions are authoritative. it’s fun to watch the cognitive dissonance when this collides with actual usage and people get all angry and righteous.
How am I supposed to estimate the pH value of a given wetland area without specialised equipment?
What, you don’t carry pH test strips around as a matter of routine? /s
Just call it something online, if people don’t immediately pop out of nowhere to correct you, then you’re probably right.
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Determine whether it’s a swamp or a marsh.
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Tell someone else you did your part, now it’s their turn.
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- Take a sip. Did you trip balls? Acid.
- Take a red wire, black wire, and a clock. Can you power the clock? Alkaline.
Duh.
Lick it. Just a little bit. Just a little snaky lick…
Learn botany. You can tell the approximate pH from the species of plants growing there.
Dale/glen???
I fucking hate Tumblr users
Help, I’m stuck in a wetland, but I didn’t bring my litmus test!
Sorry, I’m looking for you in the bog but you’re not there
do alkaline wetlands just almost never exist, because I’ve never heard the word fen before
It’s basically a bog with freshwater coming in through the bottom.
There are some in Massachusets, Colorado, Estonia, and this region of the UK called the Fens.
I’m still trying to remember the difference between pron3/supine
If it helps, I always remember it as ‘the military goes prone, supine is getting a bone.’
I never knew the fen/bog part! The only reason I knew swamps from marshes is from labeling them in OpenStreetMap
As non-native english speaking person that’s highly fascinating.
I think this is more to do with scientists’ definitions than English in general. See also: what is and isn’t a nut, what is and isn’t a vegetable, is there such thing as a fish.
I’ve never heard of a Fen before
You are not reading enough fantasy books, then.
That’s because the old Something Awful forums ruined fantasy books back for me in the early 2000’s when the big series was ASOIAF. Going from GRRM to Sanderson, Hobbs, Abercrombie etc… just doesn’t hit the same. It’s like going from crack to whippets.
Martin is crap compared to Sanderson
We can go settle this in the parking lot
Nah let’s have a space dogfight about it. I’ll pilot one of Sanderson’s many awesome spaceships, and you pilot something Martin wrote.
Fen the wetland type or fen the plural of (sci fi/fantasy) fan? Or had you heard of neither?
Sounds like it could be the name of a Hobbit. But no, never heard the word used before. I’m from Georgia and live in Virginia. Never been to a mountain wetland or to middle earth
I think I have only heard the term in:
- The plural of fan: sci fi stories set in the distant future of 1990, also in early internet fandom
- The wetland: stories from the UK, embedded in British place names, having a British parent
I wonder what sort of wetland my local one is, and the nearby swampy grasslands. Both are watered by rain or snowmelt. Both are marked as wetlands on maps
That’s cuz ya basic like one :)
So, it would be a swampy bog and a marshy fen, but not a boggy swamp or a fenny marsh?
This is one of my pet trivias :) hard to remember the pH for bogs and fens though. It has something to do with rain vs groundwater.
