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Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)

From:Fabian <fabian@...>
Date:Saturday, August 5, 2000, 16:55
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From: "Fabian" <fabian@...>
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Sent: 05 August 2000 10:22
Subject: Re: OT: Re: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)


> > The number of language-related factoids out there is truly staggering,
and
> as > > an educator I find myself doing battle with them all the time. Probably > the > > most persistent is "Eskimos have 40 (or 400, or 4000) words for snow". > This > > is doubly annoying because (a) it is false, and (b) even if it were
true,
> it > > wouldn't really be such an amazing feat. > > As a counterblast to that, www.ukcle.org (I think that is right) lists
about
> that many English words which refer to various types of mud. It is teh web > page for uk.culture.language.english anyway.
Correction: http://www.ucle.org/ucle9.html -- Fabian Find your enemy's weakest point, and destroy it. But remember who your own worst enemy is.