RE: [lojban] Re: That's mostly for spanish readers

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>I
>> have
>> also learned that Eskimo has a hundred words for snow.

>So does English, so what!? Lojban is cool because it can write these
>words with or without spaces, mirroring itself at will on Eskimo or
English.

Most Eskimo languages are agglutinative, meaning that there are a
theoretically infinite number of things we could call "words" that have
meanings related to snow. However, most have all of two root words whose
primary meaning is "snow" - one for snow that is falling, one for snow on
the ground. See "The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax", which I don't have handy
and won't take the time to look up as my power has failed three times in the
last fifteen minutes, for a discussion of this rumor and its origins and
spread.

 -- .kreig.daniyl.

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