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And I'm Martha Barnett. Here in Sunny San Diego, I've been spending time lately with sailing

enthusiasts, and of course for me, half the fun is just listening to their language.

Right. For the longest time they were saying Latlong and I didn't know what they were talking about.

Latitude and longitude? Yes, yes, what's the Latlong?

And then I learned the word decastling, which has to do with when you're

pulling the chain on an anchor. The chain can tend to castle, you know, it can tend to sort of pile up.

Yeah, yeah. So you have to decastle the chain.

Isn't that cool? The little mounds of chains.

I can picture that.

Yeah. And then another word was catenary curve which just made

me fan myself because catenary comes from a Latin word catena which means chain like

Kavina in Spanish and concatenation which is a chain of events and the

catenary curve is what you want your anchor chain to look like you don't want

it pulled tight you want kind of a curve to it. So I was just I

was just thrilled to be having all these conversations with language that I

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