The Andes are so tall, they slow the winds. (My guess. I am not a geographer)
The Andes are so tall, they slow the winds. (My guess. I am not a geographer)
It’s from 台风 (sounds like typhon, more than it sound like typhoon tbh) and tbh the “ty” part might just be from “dai” meaning “big”, so just “big wind”, but I’ve heard it’s just as likely to be “wind from Taiwan”, the same 台 ty as in 台風, Taiwan.
And yeah, this map proves that Taiwan (and northern Philippines) is the world capital of strong typhoons.
This map is a great illustration of why the “ty” of typhoon is from the “Tai” of Taiwan in the original meaning of the word.
Bonus fun fact - “hurricane” is from a native Caribbean word, from the same language family as another loanword “hammock”.
didn’t know the album cover was from a pulsar. I’d heard a story it was some kind of ECG trace of a heart attack / someone dying.