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From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
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Subject: Re: Computer Languages and the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis
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Date: 23 Aug 90 11:42:41 GMT
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In article <1990Aug22.194652.7421@fs-1.iastate.edu>, spam@hobbes.cc.iastate.edu (Begley Michael L) writes...
>This is one of those _completely_ false myths.  The eskimo language has
>only two words for snow---one that means 'snow that is falling' and 'snow
>that has fallen'.  This myth was created by a linguist who published a


Somebody posted a list of about 10-20 Eskimo words for snow on this
very net in the last couple of months. I think it may have been
in sci.skeptic. So I'd like to see your reference.