Re: Color system

Rodlox wrote:

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>>describe all the different shades of green they're exposed to every day
>>(just like the eskimos have lots of words which all mean "snow").
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> isn't that an urban myth?
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Kind of.  They have one word for snow - 'aput', but they compound
several things of what we would call words(suffixes, in Inuktitut) into
one word, thus creating new words.  And several of them will describe
snow, I'm sure.