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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jason Maxwell writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
> > While we're at it, I've
> > noticed that meteorologists love to refer to "rainshower activity," which
> > uses seven syllables when one ("rain") would be just fine.
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> 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...
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 word for falling snow, a word for slushy snow, etc... But
none of those is the same as the word for "snow." If "rain" is an
inadequate descriptor, then "rainshower activity" is surely no more
descriptive! Let the forecasters use the other terms you cited, so they can
speak with greater specificity.
Dave!
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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