Multilinqual Maggots... Say Powder!

[iceman]

Looking for tat material?

Careful, you might end up like (some stuff I don't feel like Googling for right now).

And that's gotta suck.

[joshbu]

I bet none of you morons can speak Gibberish.

Ithagi bithaget nithagone ithagov yithagou mithagorithorons "K"ithagan spithageak "J"ithagerberithagish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberish

In this case, the code "word" is ithang

[truth]

Las Nieves = the snows (spanish)

Powdero is the spanglish

[MT]

Me thinks that powder is pulver in Norwegian. However, you had better check with Telepath on that one.

[yentna]

I'm more interested in the symbols, though I'm sure there's no way to type them.

Any thoughts on that? I tried the editor of Powder Japan, and he sent me back a completely unrelated e-mail. A little lost in translation.

白茫茫　　bai mangmang (pronounced bye mongmong) Meaning vast field of whiteness, a more poetic way of saying it.
飞雪　 feixue (pronounced fey shway) Meaning flying snow. Like as in face shots...mmmmmm.
软雪　 Ruan xue (pronounced roo-on shway) Meaning soft snow. The usual way that you hear it spoken when talking of snow in China.

Okay, these characters show up on the thread when I'm using my computer, but mine is programmed for Chinese so please let me know if this doesn't work on other machines. If not, I'll try to get a PDF or something.

And on a side note, I'd advise against getting this tattooed somewhere - wait until the industry is more developed over there and they come up with a sweeter, very Chinese, way to say it.

[iceman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberish

In this case, the code "word" is ithang

Very close. It's actually "ithaga" or "ithag" if it's followed by a vowel. Words starting with a vowel start with "ithag' and go from there.

Sithagee
Ithagits
Ithageasy,
Rithagight?


My daughter taught me this when she was in third grade, the rules may not hold up to scrutiny.

Scrithagutiny.

[TeleAl]

Guys i used to ski with in France called the nice creamy stuff "la poudreuse"

Yes.
10 characters.

[Jiehkevarri]

Puuteri or Puuterilumi (literally = powder snow) in Finnish

While in Chile the locals kept yelling Polvo! during a snow storm...so I guess that's the right Spanish term...

[jonski]

yeah in french "poudre" is powder - but as in soap suds, powder milk, stuff like that.

for snow is more commonly "la neige poudresse" or powder snow, if you are grammatically correct, but there are more local terms for it, depending on where you are. unfortunately non come to mind right now!

[mildbill.]

japanese:

powder=bukkake

yyyyyyyyyou like warm sake?

veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrry goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

[KevinDineen]

白茫茫　　bai mangmang (pronounced bye mongmong) Meaning vast field of whiteness, a more poetic way of saying it.
飞雪　 feixue (pronounced fey shway) Meaning flying snow. Like as in face shots...mmmmmm.
软雪　 Ruan xue (pronounced roo-on shway) Meaning soft snow. The usual way that you hear it spoken when talking of snow in China.

Okay, these characters show up on the thread when I'm using my computer, but mine is programmed for Chinese so please let me know if this doesn't work on other machines. If not, I'll try to get a PDF or something.

And on a side note, I'd advise against getting this tattooed somewhere - wait until the industry is more developed over there and they come up with a sweeter, very Chinese, way to say it.

Yes, these sympbols showed up. Thanks!

No tats. The Calvin playing soccer on my ass that appeared one drunked night when I was 18 will continue his lonely existence as my sole tatoo for now.

[Max Gosey]

If I can find my SKIING mag from about 2 months ago with the article on Niseko (or if that's online yet... I haven't checked), I'll find the caption of "Great deep snow!" translated. Let me get back to you...

[Max Gosey]

fukai yuki saiko = great deep powder, Japanese

SKIING mag isn't TOTALLY worthless after all.

[mtbakerskier]

DT,

Speaking about Powder Japan, who do I need to talk to to see about getting some more of those issues for my collection???

[Kellie]

In Spanish (or at least as they say in AR) . . .

polvo - powder (or dust); direct translation, but used
nieve honda - deep snow; used in the context of a powder day

[edg]

Go with the owl for the french. Anything as beautiful as powder would have to be feminine, hence "poudreuse" as opposed to "poudre."

SaAaH (and not really that french),
d.

That and it's describing the feminine snow

edg

[Alek]

polvere (literally "dust") is used in italy. Also neve ascuitto or neve secca for dry snow. Origin of the word "pulverize".

I lived and skied in Italy for 27 years and I NEVER heard anyone say 'polvere'.
'neve fresca' is more likely, and dry snow is spelled 'neve asciutta'.

In Italian 'polvere' means dust, and to use that word for snow would be called a 'calco semantico': that is a literal translation
that completely loses the intended meaning in the destination language.

[Ripzalot]

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C-C-C-C-C-CO-CAINE!

(clicky linky )

[verbier61]

I lived and skied in Italy for 27 years and I NEVER heard anyone say 'polvere'.
'neve fresca' is more likely, and dry snow is spelled 'neve asciutta'.

In Italian 'polvere' means dust, and to use that word for snow would be called a 'calco semantico': that is a literal translation
that completely loses the intended meaning in the destination language.

yeah, exactly. Alek is right.
someone (not so many, actually) now says polvere, but this is because they literally translate powder after knowing the powder magazine, certainly not because of this word being used to mean snow.
I am on the two italian freeride/AT forums (actually... also splat is in the one named skiforum ) and powder (untranslated) is the word of choice. After all, english is now what latin has been for many centuries in the past... the official language of the empire .
One of the most famous italian "maggot-style" character in the planetmountain forum, for instance, is Doctor Powder, who always ends his posts (in strict italian slang) with VIENIPOOOOOOOOOWDEEEERRR (COMEPOWDERCOME.......)

[joshbu]

白茫茫　　bai mangmang (pronounced bye mongmong) Meaning vast field of whiteness, a more poetic way of saying it.
飞雪　 feixue (pronounced fey shway) Meaning flying snow. Like as in face shots...mmmmmm.
软雪　 Ruan xue (pronounced roo-on shway) Meaning soft snow. The usual way that you hear it spoken when talking of snow in China.

Okay, these characters show up on the thread when I'm using my computer, but mine is programmed for Chinese so please let me know if this doesn't work on other machines. If not, I'll try to get a PDF or something.

And on a side note, I'd advise against getting this tattooed somewhere - wait until the industry is more developed over there and they come up with a sweeter, very Chinese, way to say it.

Cool! Until the Chinese come up with their official word. 白茫茫 is helping decorate my office in 250 point.

[fattwins]

Powder in japanese is

kona Yuki

kona = powder a substance
Yuki = Snow

I hope this kanji shows up
粉　= kona
雪　＝　yuki

粉雪　=kona yuki

[Shake Zula]

In Canada it is called "powder". Unless you are French Canadian, but that has already been discussed.

[joshbu]

Bump.

粉雪 for everyone next winter!!!

[Schmear]

Guess I'm a year late but...

Just checked with the in-laws, and in Polish it's puch, pronounced "poohh" (with an h sound at the end). So in Polish-Gibberish I guess it would be pithaguch, which has nothing to do with Solidarity that I'm aware of.

[72Twenty]

Hey, thurtakinurjobs!