What Is the Karakoram Anomaly?

Posted by thunderbong 2 days ago

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Comment by likoya 2 hours ago

That place and the Kashmir valley are some of the prettiest landscapes on the planet

Comment by argee 5 hours ago

> In the Karakoram (pronounced keh·ruh·kaw·ruhm) Range—a mountainous region straddling the borders of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and China…

Non-sequitur but no one pronounces it like that in those regions.

On another note katsu (pronounced cat-sue) is a dish you should try in Japan.

Comment by s20n 5 hours ago

I don't know where they even got that pronunciation from. The wikipedia page says "Karakoram (English: /ˌkɑːrəˈkɔːrəm, ˌkær-/, Urdu: [kaːɾaːkoːɾəm])"

none of which is [kerəkɑːrəm] as the author suggests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Karakoram

Comment by bradrn 2 hours ago

I would naturally read ⟨aw⟩ as /oː/ (as in e.g. ⟨hawk⟩), rather than /ɑː/. The weird part is the [e] — the only thing I can suggest is that they’re one of those people who raise /æ/ to [e] in some positions.

Comment by ktimespi 5 hours ago

Yeah, I agree. Funnily enough, Katsu isn't pronounced that way either XD (it's pronounced cawt-sue)

Comment by argee 4 hours ago

That's the joke!

Comment by ktimespi 3 hours ago

it's so over for me lol

Comment by teiferer 57 minutes ago

In principle, this in not surprising. Throw 100 normal-distributed values at the number line with mean 1 and std deviation 2 and some will end up below 0. The higher you make the mean, the fewer will end up negative and eventually it's unlikely (though still possible) one does.

Comment by veunes 3 hours ago

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Comment by EddieSpeaks 3 hours ago

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