Eskimo words for snow
Thursday, 2 July 2009 17:05There are some people who believe that Eskimo have some large number of words for snow, and/or that this is somehow significant.
Someone on a mailing list just pointed out that English has nearly 100 terms for different clouds (though many of those are a basic noun combined with a more specific adjective).
I wonder whether English speakers are obsessed with clouds, then.