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I'm thinking taffy. (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

'a'ā or pāhoehoe?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It's gotta be pahoehoe (the one that looks like honey being stirred)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

'a'ā looks like it would fizz like pop rocks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Imagine the terminology if instead of it coming from the study of the Hawaiian volcano system, it came from the Icelandic one.
Then we'd be memorizing words like herliaphongoffjlyur.