χιόνι (Snow)

[gold_dragontsu]

Well, I was hoping to post this evening, but ran out of time. We had our first snow of the season today. It snowed on May 12, so we didn't even get a six month break from snow. Ahh well.. What can ya do?

~GD

Comments

[notte0]

I've heard from other friends that snow is a nuisance. Most especially when it starts melting and everything gets yucky.
but for someone who's never seen actual falling snow, I can only say... (no, the snow I played in that Switzerland mountain doesn't count, coz I don't remember the incident well and the snow wasn't falling from the sky. it was just there)

SNOW!!! yay!!

[gold_dragontsu]

*chuckles* Well, if you are looking for falling snow (or any snow), this is the place to see it. I would say it's an anomaly to get snow so late and so early. However, I would say it is definitely not anomalous to see snowfall between November and April. According to the locals, we've had mild winters ever since I moved here. However, an article I read said that this winter could be ugly... I've been trying to train my body to avoid thinking that the current weather is cold. So far, so good... but we haven't seen any bitterly cold temperatures yet either, even over the last few days

[crazy4t]

Oh, snow...I haven't seen any in months...It's weird, 'cause we used to have snow every winter but lately, we tend to get less and less. I guess it's the climate change. Last winter it snowed only like 2 days in my city. :(

I only read the title of your entry at the end :P and I must admit I was surprised. How come you wrote it in greek? :D

[gold_dragontsu]

My friend engine49 is from Finland, and we made a similar observation last winter about the decrease in snow. The snow came relatively late out there. I do worry about the climate change, though I'm not sure how much I can control it on a personal level...

Anyway, hopefully you'll get some snow... Enough to be beautiful, but not too much to be obnoxious. :}

Hehe, I wondered if you'd notice that title. I figured no one else would probably pay much attention except perhaps for you. :} The circumstances that prompted me to use the Greek snow are kind of coincidental. When you posted about Okhi Day, I was reading the Wikipedia entry. At the bottom is the section on pronunciation which mentioned the term "voiceless palatal fricative"... So I followed that link out of curiousity and low and behold, the example of voicelss palatal fricative in Greek is snow! So if anyone asks how Okhi Day and χιόνι are related, there's the long, convoluted answer

[crazy4t]

I think we will get to see more snow this year, since we started having cold weather rather early.

:D I feel special. Haha.
The Greel letter 'ι' is actually the English letter 'i'. The letter in general is pronounced only like for example, 'i' in the word 'kid'. 'ο' is 'o' :P. 'χ' is pronounced like 'h'. And 'ν' is 'n'. So, it's: "hioni". Say io together, 'hio' is one syllable. I hope this helped. And if you have any questions about Greek, feel free to ask me. ;)

This Lesson Brought to you by Professor Crazy4T

[gold_dragontsu]

Thanks for the excellent explanation. :) You are totally my go-to source for questions on Greek... which makes sense since I don't think anyone else I know has any knowledge of it. :}

~Gold_Dragon{TSU}