Pat Farrell;282176 Wrote: > Think of the folklore that Eskimo's have 500 words for snow, while folks > > in Atlanda GA have two.While Pat has used the word "folklore", I can't resist > pointing out that this well known story about Eskimos and snow is certainly overdone, as I learned by reading 'The Great Eskimo Hoax' (http://tinyurl.com/ycocqp) some years ago. 'This site' (http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/research/eskimo.html) takes the same approach and estimates 15 Eskimo "words for snow" and 22 for English.
Anyway, none of this gets away from the central fact that there is no magic bullet for genre. -- smc2911 http://www.last.fm/user/smc2911/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45101 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
