Some astute individual has probably told you at some point that Eskimos have dozens of words for “snow,” whereas English-speaking individuals only have one.
They lie! (Warning: link goes to a PDF file.)
Also on Wikipedia.
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Written by on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 1:43 pm (EST) Tagged as: in-your-face links the-more-you-know |
Some astute individual has probably told you at some point that Eskimos have dozens of words for “snow,” whereas English-speaking individuals only have one.
They lie! (Warning: link goes to a PDF file.)
Also on Wikipedia.