Re: Another Thing From Straight Dope
From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, June 14, 2000, 18:16 |
Yeah, okay, I just wonder how many of those words in the StraightDope answer
actually contain one of the two roots for snow.
(You can tell when I'm funning- I use words like bah and pfui.)
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:27:24 -0700 Sylvia Sotomayor
> <sylvia1@...> writes:
> > Bah.
>
> Well, the only reason i mentioned the article is because people have
> mentioned the "Eskimo Snow Question" more than a few times here, whether
> talking about issues of vocabulary, polysynthesis, etc. and i thought
> that the attempted Eskimo sentence at the end was funny, and have decided
> to use it as a sig. :-)
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
> "kaniktshaq moritlkatsio atsuniartoq."
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