Re: Interesting Words
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 5, 2001, 3:26 |
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Herman Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:00:14 EST, Elliott Lash <AL260@...> wrote:
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> >(that was a stupid subject line I know)
> >
> >Anyway, I'm wondering about that age old 'language myth' about the many words for
> >snow in Eskimo. Now of course I know this is untrue, but, does anyone have a
> >language with a similar group of words with related meanings? Let me try to
> >demonstrate using Silindion.
>
Well now I'm curious what is this myth? I know that Nenets, Nganasan and
Selkup have different words for snow depending on if it's old and hard,
soft inside but crusty surface, thick slushy, watery slushy, and so on...
---frank