Editing Talk:1449: Red Rover

I don't know the exact rules or premise of "Red Rover", nor do I know the date of the Orogeny depicted here. {{unsigned|‎Lacedemonian}}

Red Rover is children's game that is common in the US.
http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Red-Rover

[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.241|199.27.128.241]] 22:22, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Slide and mountain are highly relatable to many hikers, mountaineers and rock climbers in the Adirondacks and New Hampshire White Mountains. A slide is a rock feature common where a landslide occurs, leaving a bare strip of rock. Infamous slides occurred on mountains called Big Slide, Mount Colden, Gothics and Basin Mountain in the Adirondacks. The same happens elsewhere, such as in Colorado for instance, but I'm not sure if the feature has the same regional nickname.

"Slide" is short for "landslide."  There must be many mountains in the English-speaking world with the name "Slide Mountain" since landslides are a common occurrence in mountainous areas.[[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 04:01, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

"Slide Mountain Ocean" refers to the sea between the Slide Mountain microplate before it was subducted under what is now North America.  Slide Mountain is a particular mountain somewhere in British Columbia, the result of the remnant of the Slide Mountain microplate which accreted onto the continent, becoming the Slide Mountain terrane, as the majority of the microplate was subducted.  The west coast of Canada and Alaska has quite a complicated history of microplate subduction and accretion.  My favorite is the "Insular Islands" microplate since the name is humorously redundant. [[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 04:01, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

In New York alone, I am aware of at least 3 Slide Mountains;one is a High Peak in the Catskill Region, one is a peak of some prominance north of the Siamese Ponds Wilderness near 13th lake, and the other is south of Lake Placid. I would not be surprised if there were many more, in NY let alone. Big Slide, one of the Adirondack High Peaks, is named for its slide as well (the rumbling is said to have been heard for hundreds of miles when it occurred in 1839, IIRC).

Sliding is also another term for glissading (a common term among mountaineers and hikers), or a controlled slide descent in snown or on ice by sliding on your feet, belly or butt, often with an ice axe.

However, these terms would not be obviously relatable to most people. {{unsigned ip|‎173.245.54.211}}

Am I the only one wondering which projection he used? http://xkcd.com/977/{{unsigned ip|199.27.130.192}}

;Names made of nouns

Nice to know I'm not the only one who finds it funny when names are made up of all nouns. SeaTac airport has a restaurant called "Mountain Room Bar" that was one of the first things that got me thinking about the concept.{{unsigned ip|199.27.133.127}}

Well, there is "Seattle Tacoma air port" made up of two proper nouns and two common nouns.  A noun modifying another noun is very common in Indo-European languages.  Sometimes the modifier is identified with a grammatical case, usually genitive; or mediated via a preposition.  In modern languages it's often merely juxtaposition, as in "showroom floor" or "Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften" or "Slide Mountain," or hyphenated as in "wagon-lit." [[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 04:32, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

What is the island to the left of Laurasia? {{unsigned ip|108.162.215.129}}
:Baja California? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.81|108.162.216.81]] 22:46, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
::"Baja? We haven't got ... Baja!" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066995/quotes?item=qt0340864 [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.247|141.101.98.247]] 17:22, 21 November 2014 (UTC)