Excessively literal. But it's one way to direct research, like James Burke's Connections https://www.scientificamerican.com/department/connections/ https://www.

Excessively literal. But it's one way to direct research, like James Burke's Connections https://www.scientificamerican.com/department/connections/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/department/connections/ I always read Eskimos have 50 words for snow not as a statement about Eskimos, but that if you deal with something a lot, you'll know more about it. Similar: the novice and expert see not the same tree or Melbournians have 50 words for rain. And not literally "unthinkable" to not have those words, but that it would be silly not to.