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From: rapaport@acsu.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport)
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Subject: Re: Computer Languages and the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis
Keywords: computer languages, Sapir/Whorf hypothesis, linguistics, snow, eskimos
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Date: 30 Aug 90 16:47:44 GMT
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In article <1990Aug22.194652.7421@fs-1.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (Begley Michael L) writes:
>
>>(~11 Inuit language words for snow) and (~1 English word for snow)
>> ==> (Inuit language and English users think about snow differently)
>
>This is one of those _completely_ false myths.

Here's a reference:

Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1989), "The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax," Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 7:  275-281.