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Eskimos have nearly 100 words for snow while in English you have only one?
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∙ 13y ago
Eskimos do not have around 200 words for snow. The idea they do is a common erronious myth that has come about because of the belief that 'if eskimos live in snow, then they must have lots of different words to differentiate between different types. In actual fact the English language has more words for snow then the Eskimo language does.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe Eskimo (a.k.a. Inuit) language does have more than one word for snow, depending on whether it is falling light and dry, falling heavy and sticky, already lying on the ground (or the ice). I do not think there are really a hundred, though.
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