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sophiaserpentiaBostonites have 30 words for snow. Unfortunately, almost all of them are four letters long and would cause your internet profanity filters to reject my journal, so i can't list any of them.
(Aside: it's a myth that Eskimos have 30 or 100 or whatever words for snow. For one thing, there is no "Eskimo" language or people; there are the Aleuts, Yupiks, and Inuit. Their languages do not have "words" in the same sense as English. But in any case, they have about the same variation in their descriptions of snow and frozen water as English.)
Aaannnnyway. On the advice of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cowgrrl I picked up a pair of Yaktrax. Now i walk on smooth sheets of solid ice with the greatest of ease! Actually, soft powdery slushy ice is more dangerous for me now. Unfortunately, it doesn't make the bus move any more quickly...
(Aside: it's a myth that Eskimos have 30 or 100 or whatever words for snow. For one thing, there is no "Eskimo" language or people; there are the Aleuts, Yupiks, and Inuit. Their languages do not have "words" in the same sense as English. But in any case, they have about the same variation in their descriptions of snow and frozen water as English.)
Aaannnnyway. On the advice of
cowgrrl I picked up a pair of Yaktrax. Now i walk on smooth sheets of solid ice with the greatest of ease! Actually, soft powdery slushy ice is more dangerous for me now. Unfortunately, it doesn't make the bus move any more quickly...
