That Old Saw 'Eskimos Have 50 Words For Snow'? Every Word Of It Is Wrong
Aaron Bady goes through they saying itself and its history to explain why. (For one thing, in Inuit languages, “they can have as many words as they want for almost anything.”) In fact, “what's been the most interesting discovery is that all the wrong answers are at least as interesting and useful as the so-called […]
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