Elysia MachtFeb 28, 2024

While reading Jonathan Clements's adventures in learning Finnish for this #Kalevala day, I learned Japanese has 1194 ways of saying I love you. And a whole lot else, as you're wont to with Clements.

(Serious 'clicking forward to read the next article' warning for anything he writes though.)

https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2011/09/30/new-finnish-grammar/

http://www.salonfutura.net/2011/02/1778-ways-to-say-i-love-you/

#JonathanClements #Finnish #WordsForSnow #Linguistics #ILoveYou

New Finnish Grammar

One day, I asked my Finnish teacher if it was true that her language had 30 different words for snow. She fixed me with her big, blinky eyes. “No, you poor deluded fool,” she sighed. “We Finns only…

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Andrew ShieldsAug 18, 2023
The English language has (at least) thirty-two words (or phrases) for “tired”. #111Words #Tired #EnglishLanguage #InuitLanguages #WordsForSnow #WordsForTired #Linguistics #Synonyms https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-english-language-has-at-least.html
The English language has (at least) thirty-two words (or phrases) for “tired"

The idea that the Inuit languages have "fifty words for snow" is assumed to mean that the Inuit need to distinguish types of snow because of...

Steve GisselbrechtFeb 28, 2023

It is, as we say, "a wintry mix," but there's just not a lot OF it coming down now, is the thing. If it were pure rain, we'd call it drizzle; is it … mizzling?

#Boston #WordsForSnow