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And if someone ever tells me again that 'Eskimos have over twenty words for snow, you know?' to make some obscure point about cultures, I´m going to fetch something woody too. A club, preferably. There are so many things wrong with this myth.

edited for a link listing the various forms of snow - thank god there are people with a brain.
http://www.mendosa.com/snow.html

MacTla snow burgers
hahatla small packages of snow given as gag gifts
or even
fritla fried snow

Date: 2008-10-10 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sorion.livejournal.com
Ah, the old Eskimo myth... I wonder who started that XD

Date: 2008-10-10 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cadeira.livejournal.com
A linguist and anthropologist with the name of Franz Boas, apparently. But I wouldn´t count on it, ´coz that´s Wiki knowledge.
It´s just so bad that even in college so mayn people believe it.

Date: 2008-10-10 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sorion.livejournal.com
LOL There actually is a person who started it? XDDDDDDDDDDD

Date: 2008-10-11 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cadeira.livejournal.com
Now you wished you hadn´t joked so carelessly about it, what? And it was one of you, linguistic folk, you.

Date: 2008-10-11 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sorion.livejournal.com
*g* I knew the rumour, I just thought it was one of those things that are told and told, again...
And I'm not a linguist, I'm just there for the ride ^_~ (I am a lot of things, academic is not one of them, unfortunately XD)

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