Comment on Kiribati
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 days agoIf you look at it on the satellite view, it actually does look fairly shallow, but not shallow enough to be able to walk across.
Comment on Kiribati
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 days agoIf you look at it on the satellite view, it actually does look fairly shallow, but not shallow enough to be able to walk across.
ulterno@programming.dev 4 days ago
Unless you are someone exceptionally good at walking with long leg-sticks (I don’t know the appropriate name for that) and have someone to make an over-engineered leg-stick for this purpose.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Stilts. The word for that is stilts.
ulterno@programming.dev 3 days ago
That’s it!
Been so many years since I last read/heard that word that all I could recall was “stillets”, which is not a word and looking it up only got me to “stilettos”.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I know the feeling. I had a moment the other day I couldn’t remember the word I wanted properly and I ended up shouting it a minute after we moved on