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Kinda makes ya wanna' move on over and set up shop, innit??

So I poked around YouTube and Google to find out more. This was filmed in the spring of 2003, not the bitter winter we have now, and it's not waves turning instantly into ice, as I first thought. (Note that the people are dressed for light winter or cold spring conditions, not an Arctic deep-freeze.)

This is probably something called "ice-shove". From this Army Engineers site:

Ice shove (Figure 2) is caused when wind and wave energy is transmitted to an existing ice sheet and pushed onshore. Structures not designed to withstand ice could be extensively damaged.

'Ice shove'

I like it so much when scientists and engineers do not needlessly complicate things.

This one is a rocket to the top.

Kinda makes me wonder what it would look like if a tsunami rolled into an ice covered bay.

Whoo whoo whooo!

Upvote for the Newfie-ese. Newfoundland English is fascinating.

They were speaking English? Seriously?

We were waiting to see the shack pushed over.

Wikipedia to the rescue as usual:

Newfoundland English is a name for several dialects of English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often regarded as the most distinctive dialect of English in Canada. Some specific Newfoundland dialects are similar to the accent heard in the southeast of Ireland, while others are similar to those of West Country England, or a combination of both, mainly due to mass immigration from a limited number of ports in those specific regions.

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Newfoundland English was recognized as a separate dialect by the late 1700s when George Cartwright published a glossary of Newfoundland words. Newfoundland remained separate from Canada as a British colony until 1907 when it became an independent country in the Commonwealth. Newfoundland is an island in the Atlantic Ocean separated by the Strait of Belle Isle from the mainland portion of Labrador, a large region of sparsely populated sub-arctic land.

I'd love to see somebody try to come up with subtitles for this... It is heavy heavy duty dialect. I'd like to play it for the sous-chef where I work who is a newf. He might be able to decipher some of it.

And they keep talking about global warming! heh the ocean are turning into snow! bring on the carbon dioxide!

The sound samples linked at Wiki are from the IDEA (International Dialects of English Archives) site here. But yeah, those are pretty neutral accents. Try this clip of Great Big Sea appearing on the Vicki Gabreau show to hear richer accents.

That one dude is wearing shorts.

Up vote for the video from me ome! Great stuff.

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And the award for the World's worst tags go to....

Seriously, a search for "freezing waves" would never find this.

It must be global warming.

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