A White Christmas (Bit Late...)
Check out me with the daily posting. Even though my typing fingers are gnarled and stiff from the cold... It snowed today! It was mostly just cold early on, but then it started snowing, and then it started to stick. I thought it would just carry on being the fluffy woolly movie special effects looking snow, which has flakes too large to stick, but then the blizzard decided it meant business and stuck. A couple of inches where we are now, all powdery and fun. Plus cold, but I'm trying to go with the whole 'child-like wonder at the pretty snow' thing, rather than moaning about how freezing it is. At least I don't live in Denver.
A little wandering about the downtown area of Vancouver today, which isn't anything especially novel that I can see, contents-wise. Some of the buildings are exciting, like the funny spiral-shaped library, and the art gallery which looks old and new at the same time. I like better the neighbourhoods we passed on the bus heading into the city, which have the fun stores and cafes and just look very liveable.
Oh this reminds me: did you know that that whole thing about Eskimos having hundreds of words for snow is a complete myth? They essentially have about as many as we do. Snow, slush, sleet, powder, blizzard...we have plenty. Also you're supposed to call them Inuit, oops.
A little wandering about the downtown area of Vancouver today, which isn't anything especially novel that I can see, contents-wise. Some of the buildings are exciting, like the funny spiral-shaped library, and the art gallery which looks old and new at the same time. I like better the neighbourhoods we passed on the bus heading into the city, which have the fun stores and cafes and just look very liveable.
Oh this reminds me: did you know that that whole thing about Eskimos having hundreds of words for snow is a complete myth? They essentially have about as many as we do. Snow, slush, sleet, powder, blizzard...we have plenty. Also you're supposed to call them Inuit, oops.
posted by susie r at 12:13 AM
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Not only that, but we actually have more words than they do for snow supposedly. Good old rumours.
In addition... according to The Q.I. Book of General Ignorance (forever a source of useless knowledge) Eskimo is not necessarily seen as insulting and indeed many prefer it to Inuit, which can be since Inuit they most definitely are not. Plus, a grand total of 'probably no one' live in Igloos.
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