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’Eskimos Have Hundreds Of Words For Snow, and Other Myths Debunked’ by CPG Grey: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/10-misconceptions-rundown.html http://www.cgpgrey.
by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
’Eskimos Have Hundreds Of Words For Snow, and Other Myths Debunked’ by CPG Grey:
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/10-misconceptions-rundown.html http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/10-misconceptions-rundown.html
I live in the Netherlands, where it rains most of the year. According your logic, one would expect for the Dutch language to have countless words for rain. Instead, it has just a few, and less than a desert language like Arabic.
- joeyyang 13y agoSure, I agree that there's some contention over this. It is interesting, however, if you entertain the fact that because there exists a separate word for different types of snow, you may perceive it as a separate entity entirely from another kind of snow rather than a just "snow" with a different modifier out in front.