High as fuck eating enchiladas and rewatching Ojichan - the sand dunes of the Gobi Desert in the video they watch in class is like.. visually similar to the zoomed-in shot of the back of Brandt's neck in the first episode.
The journey was perilous. A Chinese person joined in between whom the travelers hypothesized to be a spy since the area they were crossing was a nuclear test site or something. He was not a very enthused explorer and seemed to be put out/ non-interactive.
Travelers had uyghurs as their guides who also took care of camels. In one section I remember the travelers got dysentery since the guides were using same utensils for drinking water of camels as that of the group.
One jovial natured traveler was with them for only half a leg. While traveling in the heated desert, he had taken out some watermelons and distributed to the group to their obvious delight.
There was a woman traveler as well. Uyghur ladies had advised her against the journey onward from their village/prayed for her (not sure about this part)
We know for certain that the US invaded China through the Gobi Desert - most likely seeing a lot of action around Mongolia. But we do not know how succesful this campaign really was - most likely, as several lore snippets suggest, the campaign was a failure. But how would the US even have put boots in the ground there in the first place; did the US have some ally in the region from which to launch an infantry invasion - or were they all airdropped?
"Repeated word pleonasm" is my term. What is it called?
> Pleonasm > > Some cross-linguistic redundancies, especially in placenames, occur because a word in one language became the title of a place in another (e.g., the Sahara Desertβ"Sahara" is an English approximation of the word for "deserts" in Arabic). > > "The Los Angeles Angels" professional baseball team is literally "the The Angels Angels." A supposed extreme example is Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria, if etymologized as meaning "hill" in the language of each of the cultures that have lived in the area during recorded history, could be translated as "Hillhillhill Hill". > > See the list of tautological place names for many more examples.
> Gobi > > desert in central Asia, from Mongolian gobi "desert." Gobi Desert is thus a pleonasm (see Sahara).
> Sahara > > 1610s, from Arabic Γ§ahra "desert" (plural Γ§ahara), according to Klein, noun use of fem. of the adjective asharu "yellowish red."
Hi,
title; found a full comprehensive tour of their mars base replica a while ago, can't put my hands on it anymore :/
Thanks.
