snow dear linguist ve follow discussion snowy word here elsewhere cant disagree dougla j glick vol two point one nt discussion relatively uninterest interest indeed kind idea issue linguistics general tonguester l p c put forward happen encounter nice passage book buy few day ago wherea english one word snow two include sleet eskimo several trudgill book write general audience native speaker english lecturer department linguistic science university read since op cit twenty old sometime still hear assertion above same thing german speaker 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 dust flurry frost hail hardpack igloo pingo powder sleet list m include least seemingly semantically transparent compound neuschnee snow schneeregen snow rain word frosty snowy snow nothing else serious collection datum much richer order borderline between bid example fall within field allow assessment fuzzyness line perhap discover model cognitive structure word question datum english list apart edit tony woodbury s post vol grant everything white listing snow comment quotation above least writer tell reader why many snowy word english count snow perhap eskimo opinion cover term where english one stand however everybody cautious obtain datum language include obviously own secondary source likewise much manymany fact draw exotic e document language count example phonologist decorate elaborate article two nt really point exclude word cornice snowy list word primarily denote sort snow formation feel word architectural mean rather metaphorical nature s point tell re really wrong german waechte flocke harsch derive morpheme fact tell us eskimo document guess lot those word hoax claim semantically primitive turn much connect rest vocabulary relative wealth historical datum indoeuropean language back german again flocke primarily denote something flaky rather precisely snowflake usage seem derive harsch seem connect harsch harsh noun denotation kind slighly melt freeze snow loipe kind track skier discipline guess german word disregard borrow word silly down adopt child anyway seem need word s snowy specialize feel totally unconnect word german course totally wrong loipe derive skus laufen run ski s point linguist one hand history really happen try extrapolate s mind describe s really s someone lot waechten cornice flake mind connection nonsnowy word fact ideolect course soon linguist along tell historical truth behaviour concept speaker change even fact sort folketymology absorb listen linguist folk etymology imagine thing layer person s brain synchronic word count claim acount historical derivation allow necessary historical linguistics finally point apart pretty specialize word woth snow rain another phenomenon language less german example niesel nieselregen denote light rain spray seem compound word apart e nieselt however immediately relate basic word niesel derive wasser regen niesel eskimo nt appear much outlandish quotation trudgill peter sociolinguistic introduction penguin book wolfgang lipp castor fub zedat fuberlin de i sakura kudpc kyotou ac jp 