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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."
-- Sylvia Sotomayor sylvia1@ix.netcom.com http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/ from Caldera 2.4 Linux