> Any word [Eskimos] have for snow can be described in a corresponding way in English using adjectives. I can't speak for "Eskimos" and their languages but as

> Any word [Eskimos] have for snow can be described in a corresponding way in English using adjectives. I can't speak for "Eskimos" and their languages but as a native Icelandic speaker I don't think you're quite grasping how specific jargon about everyday things like "snow" can be and how it can be wildly different from English. For example, in Icelandic "words for snow" don't just encompass its properties, but also how it got there. E.g. "skafrenningur" is snow that's loose enough that it's being blown about by the wind in a certain manner, but such snow could be either wet or dry. Of course you can explain concepts like that given sufficient time, but this also what it means for a language to not have a word for something, that its way of thinking about things doesn't align with another language.