Road tunnels of Norway PART 2 - GeoGuessr
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2023
- Trying to get 25k in less than 10 minutes on this interesting and funny map created by @stormbrewer3004
Link to the map:
www.geoguessr.com/maps/63c302...
#geoguessr #norway - Ігри
Hah! Well done!
Being plonked down on the E16 if you are not very familiar with the places along it is the worst possible road to be on for tunnels in Norway, so a job well done indeed! :)
Yeah, some years ago when we drove E16 from Voss to Bergen, I tried to count tunnels. I lost the count at some point and didn't know how many there were :D
I spent over 4 minutes on that last round. I had some kind of a little feeling that Helletunnelen could be one of those on that road, but it just took too long to find it. Without that the time could have been a lot better. All other rounds were less than 2 minutes anyway.
By the way, is there an easy explanation why some tunnel names are indefinite "tunnel" and some are in definite form "tunnelen"? That's one thing my inner linguist has wondered some time when driving through them.
@@oh2mp Probably the same reason we have loads of "-fjell/-fjellet", "-vatn/-vatnet", "-myr/-myra", "-veg/-vegen", "-gate/-gata", etc: we just do random stuff like that. :D
To be honest, I haven't got a clue. I would think the vast majority of tunnels in Norway end with "-tunnelen", though.
Edit:
Just did a search to see if there's any material on this in Norwegian, and came across a master thesis from 2019 that looks into what makes the name of a location or terrain feature definite or indefinite. Short version is that it is ... complicated. But in particular placenames that are based on a single syllable word (haug, berg, vann, etc) tend towards the indefinite, while names with longer base words or containing personal names tend towards the definite. But none of this is in no way ... definite. :D
@@stormbrewer3004 like in Finland it's totally random when you are in or on some place. Eg. you must say "Espoossa" which is literally "in Espoo", but then "Vantaalla" which is literally "on Vantaa". You must just memorize it for every place which form to use :)
@@oh2mp Location names are in other words just a way to mess with our linguistic minds. :D