Actually it’s a myth that Iniut’s (Eskimo’s) have over 400 words for snow. I’ve even recently heard a reporter on CNN say ‘over 1000’ words for snow. The number seems to get bigger every other year.
Like German, Inuit words are a combination of separate words/concepts into a new word (ie. in English it would be if there was a word ‘freezingsnow’ which is just a combination of ‘freezing’ and ‘snow’).
More on this and other language myths:
http://www.zompist.com/lang16.html
http://www.mendosa.com/snow.html
As for us, Giselle is enjoying her first blizzard. She’s never lived anywhere that it’s snowed and since we don’t have our car here, we can enjoy.. Still it’s pretty frick’n cold this week.