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From: "Fabian" <fabian@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
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
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Fabian
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