Well, two likely candidates for the Word of the Day today. Both have to do with the snow - you'd think it NEVER snows in this country, the way the media and newspapers are paying attention to it this week. It's really the talk of the town that we call Holland...
The first one is 'snelwegchaos' (highway chaos). We need this word because there's an article on the front page that reports the roads are slippery due to the snow and there are lots of accidents. Not only could anyone with half a brain see this coming with days of nearly continuous snow, but do we really need a spectacular, even frightening, word like this to describe it ?
But on the next page of the newspaper I stumbled upon the word 'sneeuwbalgooiers' (snowball throwers). The cops have caught a 14-year old and a 16-year old boy who were throwing snowballs at cars along a highway. I can see my tax money's well spent - and of course, throwing a snowball is an entirely different kind of throwing than if it had been another kind of object. The difference is obviously so significant that we require a word describing people who throw a snowball.
As far as I'm concerned, the second one is the Word of the Day !
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some urgent drawings to finish.
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