 | | Re: Geek Speak? —Jason Maxwell
| | | | (...) You don't live in Washington do you? There's a big difference between rain and rainshower activity here. Not to mention drizzle, mist, showers, thundershowers, downpours... Jason (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Geek Speak? —Dave Schuler
| | | | | (...) Well, that's the whole point, isn't it? It's like the apocryphal saying that Inuits have 47 (or so) words for snow. In fact, they don't; they have a word for fluffy snow, a word for wet snow, a word for dry snow, a word for drifted snow, a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Geek Speak? —Jason Maxwell
| | | | | (...) I guess I just inherently know what is meant by each of those words including rain and rainshower activity when used by a Western Washington forcaster after having lived here my whole life. Rain means that the area in question is going to have (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Geek Speak? —Maggie Cambron
| | | | | (...) I live in Northern California and those words mean exactly the same thing they mean to you. BTW I spent most of my teenage years in Western Washington and never owned an umbrella until I went off to college-- in Baltimore! Maggie C. (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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