Posted by Sasha Volokh: More about language: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_12_31-2007_01_06.shtml#1167934820
It's a myth that Eskimos have a huge number of words for snow (i.e., many more than we have). However, Eskimologists (not the same as eschatologists) confirm that, at least among the West Greenland Inuit, there's a single word for [1]"They were wandering about gathering up lots of stuff that smelled like dead fish." References 1. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004003.html _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
