Re:The Awful German Language
by lisper on Friday May 16, 2025 @02:56PM
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"Rain shadow" is a common idiom in English. "Wind shadow" is not because English has multiple dedicated words for this concept, including "lee" [2] as well as slipstream.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_shadow
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windward_and_leeward