Saturday, February 9, 2013

More Nemo

At A Bad Guide I asked whether the Norwegians had a name for that sticky snow that's good for snow balls. Trond Engen replied

A handy adjective: kram: "Snøen er kram. Vi lager snømann!". No single-morpheme noun. The noun kramsnø is formed with the adjective.

I put that into Google Translate and got "The snow is wet. We make a snowman!"

We did lose power last night, but not for very long. It's still snowing now, in the morning.

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I am a professor of mathematics. (I began calling myself "Empty" or Ø when hanging around at blogs, because I am somewhat fixated on the empty set. Students and colleagues know that I can be a bit of an ancient mariner about it.)