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Odd to see Inuit pluralized with a trailing s. FWIW, they are referred to as "the Inuit" in Canada. EDIT: I see from the document gwern posted that "Inuits" do
by cf100clunk 5y ago
Odd to see Inuit pluralized with a trailing s. FWIW, they are referred to as "the Inuit" in Canada.
EDIT: I see from the document gwern posted that "Inuits" does not appear in it, only in the HN title.
- cf100clunk 5y agoFurther, to be pedantic, it seems needless to call them the Arctic Inuit as they only live in the Arctic.
- mrfusion 5y agoSo far …
- loufe 5y agoPedantically that's incorrect. Some Inuit communities live far below the arctic circle, which technically makes them non-arctic Inuit.
- qiskit 5y agoThen it should only be Inuit since I'm assuming the Inuit outside of the arctic also have these ancient genes. The title makes it seem like only the inuit who live in the arctic have these genes. But I doubt that's the case.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoSince we're being pedantic, it should be pointed out that they are not all "Inuit" by any means. Inuit is primarily a term used in Canada. In Alaska, besides the Native American tribes ("Indians") that also live in some of the same areas, there are Inupiat, Yupik, and Aleut. The Inupiat are fairly closely related in culture and language to the Canadian Inuit, but the Yupik and Aleut are considerably further apart in terms of language. Calling a Yupik an "Inuit" is sort of like calling an Italian "French" just because they both speak a Romance language. They tend to not like that very much. :-)
- astrange 5y ago> In Alaska, besides the Native American tribes ("Indians") A twist on this is that even though Native American sounds more correct (doesn't imply being from India, is longer and bureaucratic), they'd actually rather be called Indians. It helps to claim it's short for Indigenous.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoFor that matter, I know Inupiat and Yupik who live in Los Angeles. :-)
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- eloff 5y agoI think it's useful for people who are unfamiliar with who the Inuit are.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoOkay I corrected the title. Sorry I’m Italian and I thought: one Inuit, two Inuits. My mistake!
- helloooooooo 5y agoInuit is plural; Inuk is singular
- Enk1du 5y agoand Inuak is dual (in the Baffin Island dialect[0], if I extrapolate correctly - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing) for when you need to talk about 2 people, because why _wouldn't_ you need a dual case. Wonderful language. Wish I had more tuits. [0] Inuit Languages and Dialects by Louis-Jacques Dorais, Nunavut Arctic College, 2003
- astrange 5y agoArabic also has dual cases. A strange thing I've found is that while ICU has all kinds of support for proper localization of plurals if you have a number in your UI, if there's no number then you still have to write `if (n == 1) singular else plural;`. Is that really serving people who want a dual/few/many distinction?