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The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax

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May 20, 2015, 16:31
goofy
The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax
http://users.utu.fi/freder/Pul...Eskimo-VocabHoax.pdf
May 20, 2015, 21:14
Kalleh
It looks really good, Goofy. I'm about to go to bed, but will definitely read it. Thanks!
September 05, 2015, 05:20
<Proofreader>
Hopefully, the next one will be Spanish, according to the Donald.ylly,
September 20, 2015, 15:58
bethree5
A good corrective: "Smilla's Sense of Snow"(novel 1992, Hoeg). As I recall there was no reference at all to a dizzying vocabulary for snow, just a highly-honed ability to read into marks & degree of melting/freezing at the edge of marks, for tracking purposes.
September 21, 2015, 06:01
<Proofreader>
That reminds me of the day I went in a book store and found a bound book but all the pages were blank. I asked the clerk about it and he told me it was thirty-nine dollars. I couldn't believe the price for a book with nothing in it. "It's actually a highly technical Eskimo treatise on snow. Those white pages are illustrations."
October 18, 2015, 08:13
Geoff
In the not too distant future there will be an Eskimo legend beginning with, "Back when we had something called snow..."
April 13, 2016, 14:08
<Proofreader>
As the polar bear said her youngster, Look cold. Here comes Natiopnal Geo photographrr"