 Poster: A snowHead
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Should it be Ski resort or Ski station?
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 18-06-07 14:27; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well you will certainly attract them with that title 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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maybe he means "pedant is required" 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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boredsurfin, Depends whether it is a purpose-built, French, concrete construction from the 1960s or a traditional town or village that happens to offer skiing.
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'Resort' is the English word and 'station' is the French. So it depends which language you're using.
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Station is clearly a concrete monstrosity built half way up the mountain full of Fat Face-wearing hoorays. Resort is picturesque hamlet at the bottom of the mountain where it should be.
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Bode Swiller, why does a resort have to be at the bottom of the mountain?
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depends if you're talking to a french person in frencgh, resort is english while french is station, after al the french for station is gare
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boredsurfin,
I guess it depends if the ski centre has a furnicular or not 
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Or ski town or ski hill or as the new NA terminology has it "mountain resort" so that they can sell real estate on the promise of golf, mtn biking, fishing etc in summer.
I've always assumed ski station meant something slightly artificial e.g. Les Arcs whereas resort might encompass a village that pre-dated the installation of lifts.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Well, some pedants might point out that you can't spell 'pedant's' properly 
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Ski Fields in Oz and NZ.
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You know it makes sense.
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| David@traxvax wrote: |
| Bode Swiller, why does a resort have to be at the bottom of the mountain? |
It's an EU directive... you know, like the curve on a banana. I happen to like my resorts to be at the bottom OK.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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II, Agreed. Wengen is obviously a ski station
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| Well, some pedants might point out that you can't spell 'pedant's' properly |
Well he could claim it was an abreviation of "Pedant is required".
It was such an obvious mistake (sometimes called greengrocers' apostrophe, I believe) that I assumed it was intentional. (Aspiring pedants please note correct posessive apostrophe for plural greengrocers).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| I happen to like my resorts to be at the bottom OK. |
I like bottoms too.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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A ski resort is the place you ski DOWN to at the end of the day with the light failing, the lifts closed and the cold beginning to numb your face. Normally the end of that last energy-sapping run from the very top, feelings of satisfaction all round... and there's nothing quite like seeing the lights of a friendly bar twinkling away at you as you descend.
A ski station, on the other hand, is the place you have to take the lift back UP to at the end of the day. There's a massive difference on the enjoyment continuum.
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snowball, i like my bottoms to have apostrophes so they belong to someone.
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Ski station or zoo station, you decide...
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Wear The Fox Hat, Talking of which the smallcutezookeeper has been quiet of late 
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| snowball, i like my bottoms to have apostrophes so they belong to someone. |
 I prefer my bottom's top to be me.
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[quote="Bode Swiller"]A ski resort is the place you ski DOWN to at the end of the day with the light failing, the lifts closed and the cold beginning to numb your face. Normally the end of that last energy-sapping run from the very top, feelings of satisfaction all round... and there's nothing quite like seeing the lights of a friendly bar twinkling away at you as you descend.
Ooh! That's a good description
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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AAArgh! Speling wos olwais migh week poignt eye'm afried.
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You know it makes sense.
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Ooh, change of thread title: first we were needed, now we aren't. I feel like a West Indian immigrant in the 80s.
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