Thread: Weather outside your window

What a whather outside your window now?

Snow, not very cold, overcast.

Originally Posted by vandoiyoy

What is the weather outside your window now?

"Whether" is also a word in English, but it has a different meaning from "weather". There's a rhyme to help you remember:
Whether the weather is cold, or whether the weather is hot, we'll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.

Здесь в Кембридже, погода вне моего окна облачна и прохладна.

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

"Whether" is also a word in English, but it has a different meaning from "weather". There's a rhyme to help you remember:
Whether the weather is cold, or whether the weather is hot, we'll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.

Здесь в Кембридже, погода вне моего окна облачна и прохладна.

I guess there're many levels of "chilly", and yours is not that bad especially in comparison with Eastern Europe and the territories further to the east. =)))

Originally Posted by Eric C.

I guess there're many levels of "chilly", and yours is not that bad especially in comparison with Eastern Europe and the territories further to the east. =)))

Of course, this is very true. That's why I used the word «прохладна» instead of «холодна». Is there a milder word than «прохладна»?

Blame livemocha

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

"Whether" is also a word in English, but it has a different meaning from "weather". There's a rhyme to help you remember:
Whether the weather is cold, or whether the weather is hot, we'll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.

Здесь в Кембридже, погода вне моего окна облачна и прохладна.

Ah, btw, "Здесь в Кембридже, погода за моим окном облачна и прохладна."

I think that's more like a native would say.

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

Blame livemocha

Now I can blame it. =)))

Here in the suburbs of the Yankeestanian capital (Здесь в пригородах пиндостанской столицы), it's "cold as a witch's tit" (так холодно, как сиська у ведьмы), but not yet "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" (достаточно холодно, чтобы отморозить яйца/муда с латунной обезьяны).



P.S. Speaking of witches and their ta-ta's, it's interesting to do a Google Image search with ведьма, and then compare the results if you use колдунья instead (the words can both be translated as "witch" -- yet they're not quite synonymous!)

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

Of course, this is very true. That's why I used the word «прохладно» instead of «холодно».

When these words are used as stand alone words they are neural adverbs. Only when used as short forms of the adjectives they accept the gender of the modified noun "погода прохладна".

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

Is there a milder word than «прохладно»?

I can't figure it out. Some people use word "свежо" but it is quite an ambiguous word and can't be directly related to any degree of coldness.

Throbert McGee
We rather say "холодно как где-то" then "холодно как что-то".
"Холодно как на северном полюсе."

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

Throbert McGee
We rather We'd more typically say "холодно как где-то" then than "холодно как что-то".
"Холодно как на северном полюсе."

Okay then, how about: "Здесь в Виржинии, (мне) холодно как (блохе) на ведьминей сиське!"



Или нечто более научно-фантастическое: холодно как на Плутоне зимой во вьюге замороженного азота! (Cold as a Plutonian winter during a blizzard of frozen nitrogen!)

Кто-нибудь говорит "за моим окном холодно"? Грамотнее сказать : "На улице холодно" = It's cold outside (but literally, "In the street it is cold).

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Okay then, how about: "Здесь в Виржинии, (мне) холодно как (блохе) на ведьминей сиське!"
Или нечто более научно-фантастическое: холодно как на Плутоне зимой во вьюге замороженного азота! (Cold as a Plutonian winter during a blizzard of frozen nitrogen!)

These are Ok.

Originally Posted by alexsms

Кто-нибудь говорит "за моим окном холодно"? Грамотнее сказать : "На улице холодно" = It's cold outside (but literally, "In the street it is cold).

Я знаю много людей, которые говорят и "за окном" и "на улице". "На улице" более формальный вариант.

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

These are Ok.

Я знаю много людей, которые говорят и "за окном" и "на улице". "На улице" более формальный вариант.

Вообще-то да. Говорят же "Ну как там за окном?" и т.п.

To Throbert, it should be "на ведьминой"...

The weather outside my window makes me happy: it's cold, windy, slushy, a mess under my feet, there are many mountains of snow with a height of adult man, icicles, threateningly hanging down from roofs with a hope of killing another passerby... all as usual.

Что я имел в виду:
Погода за окном не может не радовать: холодно, ветрено, слякотно, каша под ногами, горы снега с человеческий рост, сосули, грозно свисающие с крыш в надежде убить очередного прохожего... всё как обычно.

Originally Posted by Khein

..сосули..

Originally Posted by Юрка

Срезают лазером сосули,
В лицо впиваются снежины.
До остановы добегу ли,
В снегу не утопив ботины?

А дома ждёт меня тарела,
Тарела гречи с белой булой;
В ногах - резиновая грела,
И тапы мягкие под стулом.

В железной бане - две селёды,
Торчат оттуда ложа с вилой.
Есть рюма и бутыла с водой,
Она обед мой завершила.

Я в кружу положу завары,
Раскрою « Кобзаря» Шевчены -
Поэта уровня Петрары,
И Валентины Матвиены.

http://masterrussian.net/f19/анекдот...7/index41.html

I was surprised by how cold it was.

And...where?

In Moscow.

It's still cold here and it has been snowing for two or maybe three days.