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Saturday, February 05, 2005

Fact or Crap?


Fact or Crap?


The Inuit language has over 100 words for snow.





CRAP! The Inuit languages have one word for snow: ‘pialaitok’. Modifying nouns can be added to this root word to create more words, but root words in any language can be modified indefinitely by adding new endings. Think of snow in English (snowfall, snowdrift, snowshoe, etc.). The idea that Inuit languages have more words for snow has been traced to a 1940 article by Benjamin Lee Worf in Technology Review in which he said that there were seven different words for snow in Inuit (he never actually researched this.)

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