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Not to be TOO technical, but since Inuktitut is agglutinative and polysynthetic the question of “how many words?” is meaningless. You might as well ask “how many sentences does English have to describe snow?”.
Here's Waldo about 3 years ago
He wanted to teach them English, but they’d have nunavit.
Ratkin Premium Member about 3 years ago
“Esk ‘im mo’ about that.”
Imagine about 3 years ago
Sounds like a snow job.
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member about 3 years ago
Not to be TOO technical, but since Inuktitut is agglutinative and polysynthetic the question of “how many words?” is meaningless. You might as well ask “how many sentences does English have to describe snow?”.
So there!!
Redd Panda about 3 years ago
Here’s your fun fact … they had to change the name of ‘’Eskimo Pies’’ because the Inuit consider ’’eskimo’’ a slanderous word.
Totalloser Premium Member about 3 years ago
The other guy looks like Monty’s Brother
F-Flash about 3 years ago
Eskimo pig latin, “umba ssa”
dtdbiz about 3 years ago
The men are starting to grow beards. Like when the “Big Bang Theory” gang went to research in the Arctic.
WCraft about 3 years ago
What do you call the snow that the local bully shoves down the back of your snow pants? Asking for a friend.
FassEddie about 3 years ago
If you trip over a walrus, you’ll have more in your pants to worry about than snow.
mistercatworks about 3 years ago
Inuit has lots of compound words like German – so not really separate words, just snow with modifiers.
monya_43 about 3 years ago
The Scots have 421 different words for snow.
stamps about 3 years ago
What’s the word for when you sit on a snowman and suddenly realize it’s a polar bear?
Sisyphos about 3 years ago
Poor old English, only one word for snow. But thousands of possible modifiers!