Do Arctic Languages Really Have 40 Words for Snow? New Evidence
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Top Comments (10)
My mom HATED having to drive in the snow and she had more than 40 words for the white stuff and none of them were appropriate.
Well, scientists have 40 kinds of ice, so it's only fair.
In swedish we can build words, "snö" is the main word for snow, then we have nysnö, blötsnö, kramsnö, konstsnö, pudersnö and so on, we can also have words as snöorm, snöslask, snömodd, snöhögar and other combinations. And the snow can also be called "skare" if it hard over soft snow and "slask" if it wet as mud, so we can form whatever word we want for any kind of snow.
Fun fact: Albanian's have 27 distinct words for both eyebrows and mustaches.
I know for sure Italians have hundreds of words for "pasta"
Finnish language has more than 100 words for snow, all the basic words and compound words in different dialects combined. However Finnish language has even more words for alcohol.
Remember a Malcolm in middle episode. A native American said I only have one word for snow. Snow
As a cognitive psycholinguist I have to point out that nobody has the slightest idea what a word is. The space between words is what matters.
So, that’s why scientists have so many words for water and ice… they did the maths. 🌝
as a italian i get it by comparison with the word rain, we have some. it depends on how big the drop is and the intensity of the rainfall and also if it comes sideways forced by the wind, and on and on and on...
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Top Comments (10)
My mom HATED having to drive in the snow and she had more than 40 words for the white stuff and none of them were appropriate.
Well, scientists have 40 kinds of ice, so it's only fair.
In swedish we can build words, "snö" is the main word for snow, then we have nysnö, blötsnö, kramsnö, konstsnö, pudersnö and so on, we can also have words as snöorm, snöslask, snömodd, snöhögar and other combinations. And the snow can also be called "skare" if it hard over soft snow and "slask" if it wet as mud, so we can form whatever word we want for any kind of snow.
Fun fact: Albanian's have 27 distinct words for both eyebrows and mustaches.
I know for sure Italians have hundreds of words for "pasta"
Finnish language has more than 100 words for snow, all the basic words and compound words in different dialects combined. However Finnish language has even more words for alcohol.
Remember a Malcolm in middle episode. A native American said I only have one word for snow. Snow
As a cognitive psycholinguist I have to point out that nobody has the slightest idea what a word is. The space between words is what matters.
So, that’s why scientists have so many words for water and ice… they did the maths. 🌝
as a italian i get it by comparison with the word rain, we have some. it depends on how big the drop is and the intensity of the rainfall and also if it comes sideways forced by the wind, and on and on and on...