What I find interesting about this is that this transition also happened in highly unrelated languages such as Hungarian, Greek and Swedish, not only in related Portuguese and French.
- In Hungarian, /ʎ/ in most dialects turned into /j/, but the spelling ⟨ly⟩ was preserved, hence lyuk [juk].
- In Swedish, /lj/ turned into /j/ in word-initial positions, but the spelling ⟨lj⟩ was preserved, hence ljus [ˈjʉːs].
- In Cypriot Greek, /lj/ is often pronounced as [ʝː], especially by younger speakers. In Standard Modern Greek, it always surfaces as [ʎ].
I guess people find it hard to pronounce /ʎ/ but are too inert to change the spelling.
The radius of the currently observable universe is about 50 billion light-years and this map depicts a sphere with a radius of about 1 billion light-years, so if my calculamalations are correct, following through with sphere volume V being V=4/3πr³ this map depicts about 0.001 percent of the observable universe.
At least the vegetation seems to have bounced back in the last 10 years.
Right here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=neitokainen#map=18/67.55653/24.50085
You're right, it's very far north, next to the border with Sweden.
They’re not saving the environment, they’re running a monoculture tree farm
Nope.
https://blog.ecosia.org/everyone-getting-tree-planting-wrong/
https://www.ecosia.org/#our_tree_planting_approach
https://blog.ecosia.org/where-why-how-does-ecosia-plant-trees/
https://ecosia.co/finreportsen
Instead of monocultures, we grow over 500 different native species where they are needed most. Always shoulder-to-shoulder with local communities.
Antineutrinos don't interact with almost anything. They're just a bunch of wimps. They're harmless. Neat for mapping nuclear reactors tho.