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But Finnish does have 50 words for snow! https://everything2.com/title/Finnish+words+for+snow https://everything2.com/title/Finnish+words+for+snow
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
But Finnish does have 50 words for snow!
https://everything2.com/title/Finnish+words+for+snow https://everything2.com/title/Finnish+words+for+snow
- bluGill 6y agoMy normal English vocabulary includes more than 50 words for snow. So what. Snow is discussed often enough in some climates that it makes sense to have shortcuts to quickly describe the variations. In temperate climates you could get away with having to say "raindrops that have many small individual frozen frozen spots inside the mostly liquid drop." sleet is much shorter (and easier to understand for those who have encountered it.