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Inuit words for "snow"

 
 
Reply Sat 24 Nov, 2007 09:07 am
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 2 Dec, 2007 02:38 am
So can the weathergirl doing the ski reports of powder, packed powder and less than ideal, just start saying 'snowy'? She was only trying to catch up with the Innuit anyway.

Joe(when I was a boy we had corn snow and rice snow)Nation
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jbgoode
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jan, 2008 02:25 pm
Yea, but they only have one word for the sun and it just so happens to have the same meaning as "Oh my gosh. What is that?" Hee, hee, hee...
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jan, 2008 02:53 pm
I have heard that Yiddish has many ways of calling a person a fool.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Thu 17 Jan, 2008 01:50 pm
In New England, when I (cough, cough) was a boy, we referred to different textures of snow: fluff snow (Low moisture stuff), corn snow- rice snow (icier) and ball snow (the best kind for making snowballs).

How about where you were?

Joe(To say nothing of powder snow.)Nation
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 17 Jan, 2008 02:27 pm
In 'Merica, where i grew up . . . we had 500 ways to say "F*ck You, Joe ! ! !"
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farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 17 Jan, 2008 02:55 pm
We have "onion snow" ,which is any snow after Saint Patty's day .
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Fri 18 Jan, 2008 08:19 pm
Onion snow makes sense, the blanket of moisture will make those Spring-ups be sweet.
http://fothergills.co.uk/images/detailimages/253-onion-large.jpg

Setanta wrote:
In 'Merica, where i grew up . . . we had 500 ways to say "F*ck You, Joe ! ! !"

It may be where you grew up, but apparently no one raised you up right.

Joe(the correct number is about thirty-six)Nation



(Most of them created by my second wife)

(Wait. Hey....maybe it could be 500...)
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 19 Jan, 2008 04:19 am
Just looked in to say Hi!

Mc(sometimes I just don't know what the hell Joe is on about)T
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sat 19 Jan, 2008 06:31 am
Whereas we are always quite certain of McTag's motives. (What the hell am I talking about?)

One can also snow someone about a situation or be snowed by someone else.

Snowing up North is a reference to a person having dandruff.
Snowing down South used to refer to a female with a bit of slip showing.

Snow falling can be described as flurries, as a steady snowfall, as a snowstorm or a full blown blizzard. I haven't mentioned Sleet because it is seen as a lesser cousin of snow, a kind of evil twin of rain.

Joe(Of all the words above, the two most interesting to me are "dandruff" and "blizzard")Nation
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dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 19 Jan, 2008 08:11 am
What in Joe Nation is snow?
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dadpad
 
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Reply Sat 19 Jan, 2008 08:26 am
Theres snow business like snowbusiness.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 19 Jan, 2008 10:18 am
Joe Nation wrote:
Whereas we are always quite certain of McTag's motives. (What the hell am I talking about?)

One can also snow someone about a situation or be snowed by someone else.

Snowing up North is a reference to a person having dandruff.
Snowing down South used to refer to a female with a bit of slip showing.

Snow falling can be described as flurries, as a steady snowfall, as a snowstorm or a full blown blizzard. I haven't mentioned Sleet because it is seen as a lesser cousin of snow, a kind of evil twin of rain.

Joe(Of all the words above, the two most interesting to me are "dandruff" and "blizzard")Nation


I once wrote to the BBC to complain that a news broadcast had described some weather conditions as "snow blizzards".

What other kinds are there? Rolling Eyes

You have to keep them on their toes.
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Diane
 
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Reply Sun 3 Feb, 2008 02:20 am
Trying to keep up with a2k in my usual, idiotic, random way, I shall invent a word: Snowee, the person being snowed.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sun 3 Feb, 2008 05:42 am
My cousin made a wonderful remark the other day. I said that Toronto was supposed to have the largest number of different nationalities in it. and she, quick as a flash, said:
"Oh I don't believe that, it's just that there are over a hundred different words for Inuit"!
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 3 Feb, 2008 05:45 am
Clary wrote:
My cousin made a wonderful remark the other day. I said that Toronto was supposed to have the largest number of different nationalities in it. and she, quick as a flash, said:
"Oh I don't believe that, it's just that there are over a hundred different words for Inuit"!


That is so funny.

Joe(so quick it makes me grin with envy)Nation
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Clary
 
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Reply Sun 3 Feb, 2008 05:50 am
I keep trying to get her to take part in A2K but she is an aficionada of Abebooks. Scintillating wit.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 3 Feb, 2008 06:09 am
What Abebooks?

Joe(inquiring mind)Nation
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Equus
 
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Reply Sun 3 Feb, 2008 09:57 am
Re: Inuit words for "snow"
dyslexia wrote:


Makes snow difference to me.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sun 3 Feb, 2008 10:05 am
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