One Ski Instructor Explored the Taxonomy of Snow

One Ski Instructor Explored the Taxonomy of Snow

Just how many ways can you describe snow using words? That’s a bigger question than you might think — and one that countless fans of weather and language have sought to map out. One memorable example comes fromThe Atlantic‘s Ian Bogost in a 2016 article. (Full disclosure: I’ve written a book for a series Bogost edits.) Bogost explored the ways that speakers of English and Eskaleut languages can describe a certain freezing cold precipitation — al…