Re: And the Eskimos have 100 words for 'Snow Cone'

[Neil Thompson <abraxis@icon.co.za>]

John,

There are days on the Internet when a jewel comes by out of nowhere - this
word/concept is one of them (I genuinely fell out of my chair laughing :-)

Now if there was a way to get it included in English......hmmm, maybe
applied memetics.

Cheers! (Relax...have a homebrew)

Neil


On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> Indeed, and why is there no word for "hakamaro'o"* in English?
> Is it a specifically Pascuan concept? Surely not. Garages
> throughout the U.S. are filled with objects obtained thereby.
> 
> *Rough translation: "the act of borrowing something, with no
> intention of returning it, as a mild form of malicious sabotage."