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by panglott
3322 days ago
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It's a widely known myth, but I'm pretty sure that Inuit absolutely has 100+ words for snow: it's just that's a meaningless and unsurprising assertion. The Inuit languages are polysynthetic and can say in a word what European languages need a sentence for, so Inuit can sidestep Zipf's law on word frequency. But also, English has plenty of words for snow, here's 50: https://www.thoughtco.com/snow-terms-types-3010117 |
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