Thursday, November 02, 2006

Snow and Ice


It is that time of the year, when it has snowed and the snow has not gone away. At this point you know that the snow is here for the next six months. Also with daytime saving kicking in (whatever is the logic behind this concept), and when it starts getting dark at 5 PM, the depressing cycle of the year has just begun.
Neways this is a thing which happens only at the begining and the end of winters. During these times, when the temperature swings across the freezing point; the SNOW melts when the temperature goes positive, and when the temperature comes back in the negative, the melted snow freezes back to form ICE. This ICE causes people to slip and skid all the time.
Note, the differnce between these two words, ICE and SNOW. Snow is soft and crystalline, when you put your foot in a pile of snow, it goes right in. On the other hand there does not even exist nething called a pile of ice. Ice is amorphous and slippery.

What prompted me to write this post was that, the two words 'ICE' & 'SNOW' dont even exist in Marathi OR Hindi. There is only one word for it 'barfa' , 'baraf'.
Do these words really dont exist, or I am just not aware of them? Or is it possible that they do exist in Kashmiri perhaps?

4 comments:

Pushpak Bhandari said...

i want 3kgs of snow and ice as parcel...dnt forget 2 get them while comin...i dunno how ull get dem or wht will u call it by d time it reaches India but i do wanna taste d water out der...is it ne different? like boring water and corporation h2o out here? jokes apart...its really interestin

Anonymous said...

Ah enjoy the snow/ice/barfadude. ;-)
And seriously I had my first dose of daylight savings recently and it feels weird. Suddenly u r 1 hour ahead(in my case)! I really am going to find out the logic behind this.

Anonymous said...

Ah enjoy the snow/ice/barfa dude. ;-)
And I had my first dose of daylight savings recently and it feels weird. Suddenly u r one hour ahead(in my case)! I really hope to find out the logic behind this.

Anonymous said...

hmm never got any oppurtunity to feel so, snow or ice difference, Indian temperature u know and out here in singapore it is very hot and humid so no chance to experience it.
But yes one day I too want to feel wat it actually is like to be in that situation
~preeti