snow 3 1 2 dear linguists following discussion snowy words elsewhere time cant disagree douglas j glick see vol5 1322 two points one nt find discussion relatively uninteresting interesting indeed see kind ideas issue linguistics general tonguesters l p c put forward happened encountered nice passage book bought days ago whereas english one word _ snow _ two include _ sleet _ eskimo several trudgill 1974 27 book written general audience native speaker english lecturer department linguistic science university reading since 1970 op cit twenty years old sometimes still hear assertions like know thing german speakers still german least schnee schnee mann regen matsch schnee flocke neuschnee harsch waechte lawine loipe hagel graupel english snow snow bank fort house man mixedwith rain flake storm slush snow snow cornice avalanche blizzard dusting flurry frost hail hardpack igloo pingo powder sleet lists including least seemingly semantically transparent compounds like neuschnee new snow schneeregen snow rain well words frosty snowy well snow nothing else serious collection data much richer order borderline good bad examples fall well within field allow assessment fuzzyness line perhaps discover model cognitive structure words question data english list apart editing taken tony woodbury posting see vol5 1239 granted everything white listings given snow comment quotation least writer told reader many snowy words english count snow perhaps eskimo opinion cover term english one stands however make everybody cautious obtaining data language including obviously way secondary sources likewise much manymany facts drawn exotic e well documented languages count example phonologists like decorate elaborate articles two nt really get point excluding words like cornice snowy list people use word primarily denote sort snow formation feel word architectural meaning rather metaphorical nature point telling really wrong german waechte flocke harsch might well derived morphemes fact tells us eskimo well documented guess lot words hoax claims semantically primitive would turn much connected rest vocabulary relative wealth historical data indoeuropean languages back german flocke primarily denotes something flaky rather precisely snowflake usages seem derived harsch seems connected harsch harsh used noun denotation kind slighly melted frozen snow loipe kind tracks skiers use discipline guess german word disregarding borrowed words silly looking adopted children anyway seems need word snowy specialized feeling totally unconnected word german course might totally wrong loipe derived ski laufen run ski point linguists looking one hand history find really happened try extrapolate people minds describe really going someone lot waechten cornices flakes mind connection nonsnowy words fact ideolect course soon linguist comes along tells historical truth behaviour concepts speaker might change even fact sort folketymology absorbed listening linguist folk etymology way imagine things layer person brain synchronic word counting claiming acount historical derivation allowed necessary historical linguistics finally would like point apart pretty specialized words woth snow rain another phenomenon languages may less say german example niesel nieselregen denoting light rain spray seem uses compounds word apart es nieselt however immediately related basic word niesel could said derived wasser regen niesel eskimo nt appear much outlandish quotation taken trudgill peter _ sociolinguistics introduction _ penguin books 1974 wolfgang lipp castor fub46 zedat fuberlin de i52023 sakura kudpc kyotou ac jp