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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
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Date: 7 Nov 91 17:38:27 GMT
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>> As for the other mails about how many really different words for snow
>> they have, Pullum quotes Schultz-Lorentzen's 'Dictionary of the West
>> Greenlandic Eskimo Language' to the effect that there are only two roots
>> in the language that refer to snow - 'qanik' or snow in the air, and
>> 'aput' or snow on the ground. Pullum suggests that pointing this out in
>> a public meeting "..will not make you the most popular person in the
>> room. It will have an effect roughly equivalent to pouring fifty gallons
>> of thick oatmeal into a harpsichord during a baroque recital."
>> 
>> Abandoning myths is painful.
>> Greenlandic Eskimo Language (1927)
>> As for the other mails on just how many really differ
>> -- 
>>    John Waterworth (john@iss.nus.sg)
>>    Institute of Systems Science                           Ph: +65 772-3111 
>>    National University of Singapore                      FAX: +65 778-2571
>>    Singapore 0511                               

As for all the above mails, perhaps we should adopt the term Innuit as
soon as possible? de Bono suggests that

DEFINITION 0
Es.ki.mo \'es-k*-.mo-\ \.es-k*-'mo--*n\ n or Eskimo or Eskimos [Dan, of
   Algonquian origin; akin to Cree askimowew he eats it raw] pl  1a: a group
   of peoples of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and eastern Siberia 1b: a
   member of such people 2: the language of the Eskimo people - Es.ki.mo.an aj

is not a good starting point to name a people. He goes so far as to
say that the translation may be "smelly fish eater".

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  he said what? - he said "hello" -- that's a bit aggressive isn't it?


