"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three"

[larryhammer]

Three links:

Multiday lightning storms seen from space.

Timelapse of the Grand Canyon with clouds, as in filling it. (via)

The greening of Antarctica is happening. Now. (via all over)

---L.

Subject quote from Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.

Comments

[larryhammer]

What's the hangeul order?

[thistleingrey]

www.indiana.edu/~korean/K101/dictionary_order.html

Without the tense ones, ㄱㄴㄷㄹㅁㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ, which comes to this in kiddie form: ga na da la ma ba sa [ng] ja cha ka ta pa ha. The last five are the aspirates, most with a non-aspirate sib earlier in the sequence; the tense ones accompany their normal sibs. Thus the full set is ㄱㄲㄴㄷㄸㄹㅁㅂㅃㅅㅆㅇㅈㅉㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ

Footnotes:
1. There used to be two graphs that looked like ㅇ. Now there is one. The surviving one is syllable-final only: 방 is b-a-ng, a room.
2. The letters have sort of reduplicative names that I tend to forget--ㅁ is mieum (two syllables, miŭm)--but "a" is the first vowel and ga na da is how little kids learn to read.

[larryhammer]

Coo.

Kana, the voiced consonants, which are written as their unvoiced counterpart with a diacritic mark,* get folded into counterparts for ordering purposes (these being k/g, s/z, t/d, h/b/p).

* Because Classical Japanese, when kana were developed, didn't distinguish the sounds.