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Re: Interesting Words

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Monday, November 5, 2001, 3:26
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Herman Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:00:14 EST, Elliott Lash <AL260@...> wrote: > > >(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