Turns out that their language is agglutinative, so those “words for snow” are actually phrases, such as “deep snow” and “wet heavy snow” and “snow that gets on your eyelashes but doesn’t stick” and so forth.
One word for snow, but lots of modifiers. Check “agglutinative language”. My own favorite is from Adam Koford, “I haz 50 words for snow and they iz all obscene.”
Concretionist almost 2 years ago
Turns out that their language is agglutinative, so those “words for snow” are actually phrases, such as “deep snow” and “wet heavy snow” and “snow that gets on your eyelashes but doesn’t stick” and so forth.
Jesy Bertz Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Two words: “Eskimo Pie”.
momofalex7 almost 2 years ago
That’s because they will eat at least 1000 different things.
jasonsnakelover almost 2 years ago
One time I saw 101 words for snow. One time I saw 1,001 words for food.
tudza Premium Member almost 2 years ago
One word for snow, but lots of modifiers. Check “agglutinative language”. My own favorite is from Adam Koford, “I haz 50 words for snow and they iz all obscene.”
Jayalexander almost 2 years ago
Last man standing in the Donner Party has 86 words for food and just one expletive for snow.
mfrasca almost 2 years ago
Frank sez don’t eat the yellow snow.
WCraft Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Except they all sound the same…
mwksix almost 2 years ago
If your life was as boring as an Inuit, you have a 100 words for everything too!
Lightpainter Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Ok, dogs, but you have no words whatsoever for food texture:
“I don’t know, I ate it too fast. If you can’t swallow it in two bites, it isn’t worth eating”.
MRBLUESKY529 almost 2 years ago
Woof! nope, only one word for food.
Zen-of-Zinfandel almost 2 years ago
Paging Dr. Doolittle.
jrlind55 almost 2 years ago
1,000 words, huh?
Let’s see… food, foood, fooood, FOOD!, fffood… I’m pretty much done.