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> Drowning is hyperbole English is not my first language. How would you describe something previously on land becoming submerged by the ocean?
by geysersam 4y ago
> Drowning is hyperbole
English is not my first language.
How would you describe something previously on land becoming submerged by the ocean?
- revelio 4y ago>> How would you describe something previously on land becoming submerged by the ocean? A tide. Sea level rises are small and highly predictable over time. All claims of dramatic sudden flooding or drowning are based on assumed correctness of models that, as scottLobster points out, have always been wrong (they always overshoot).
- Retric 4y agoFlooding. Drowning is when a living organism is submerged, flooding is when buildings are submerged.
- geysersam 4y agoDoesn't that make it sound like a temporary condition?
- Retric 4y agoIt’s a tense thing. The processes is flooding, if it’s already happened then it flooded. Ie: The Bering Strait land bridge flooded 10,000+ years a gap and it’s still under water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia Ultimately sea level rise is a temporary thing. Given enough time the oceans will boil as the sun ages unless something drastic changes.
- geysersam 4y agoThanks, I learnt something new.
- tablespoon 4y ago> Drowning is when a living organism is submerged... ...and dies from it, which is a pretty important aspect to the word. If the organism doesn't die, it's swimming or just submerged.
- Retric 4y agoDrowning is a process. You can escape or be rescued before death.