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From: gevins@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Jody Gevins)
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Subject: Re: Computer Languages and the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis
Summary: more explanation
Keywords: computer languages, Sapir/Whorf hypothesis, linguistics, snow, eskimos
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You gave three Eskimo words for snow.  Can you give the English
explanations for them?  They don't mean anything to me, so I
don't know the *class* of words that they are.  They could mean
flurries, snow flake, late spring wet snow, or some other class that
I couldn't possibly think of.

As someone pointed out, *we* have many words for some of the classes
of snow, so this explanation may be enlightening (or not! :-)).

-Jody