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From: lkmason@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Lindsay K. Mason)
Subject: Re: "Eskimo:ish"/"Greenland:ish" words for snow
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:01:17 GMT
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Mats Nilsson (euamann@eua.ericsson.se) wrote:
: Does anybody know how many words exist meaning snow in "Eskimo:ish"/"Greenland
:ish"?

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in the common eskimo dialect, about 26+.
there is a useful phrase: kaniqtshaq moritlkatsio atsunartok
s'posed to mean "look at all the fucking snow" but translates to "observe the
snow, it fornicates"

ain't languages a wond'ful thang?
lindsay
