Piste Piste A piste () is a marked ski run or path down a mountain for snow skiing, snowboarding, or other mountain sports. This European term is French ("trail", "track") and synonymous with 'trail', 'slope', or 'groomed run' in North America. The word is pronounced using a long "e" sound (e.g. rhymes with "beast"). Increasingly, North Americans employ its common European antonym, 'off piste', to describe backcountry skiing, especially when referring to skiing outside officially approved areas of a ski resort. Pistes are usually maintained using tracked vehicles known as snowcats to compact or "groom" the snow to even out trail
Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender referring to individuals who identify as neither male nor female or who reject the division of male/female gender roles on ideological grounds. A subtler strategy of gender-neutralizing pronouns is the replacement of "man" (which means either "man" or "one", as in: One ought to gender-neutralize pronouns) with "en" (which, literally translated, means "one"). The problem with this is that "en" is already used in some dialects and contexts as a replacement for "man" and some native speakers of Swedish would thus consider the word as belonging to regional or low-prestige language. Nouns for occupations in Swedish used to have feminine