6.82 Fun: Silliness about Eskimo snow

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-82. Fri 20 Jan 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 53
 
Subject: 6.82 Fun: Silliness about Eskimo snow
 
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:03:53 -0600
From: geoffn at siu.edu (Geoffrey S. Nathan)
Subject: Silliness about Eskimo snow
 
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:03:53 -0600
From: geoffn at siu.edu (Geoffrey S. Nathan)
Subject: Silliness about Eskimo snow
 
The cartoon strip The Duplex, which is normally a commentary on what used to
be called 'The War between the Sexes', and deals with two young singles and
their dogs, today dealt with our favorite topic:
 
Snowy landscape
 
Her poodle:  I read somewhere that the Eskimos have 80 [sic] words for
                snow.
She:         That's nothing.
 
Snowy landscape with him and his mutt shovelling snow
 
He:     *@#!
His mutt:       DOUBLE *@#!
She:    If you've ever listened to guys shovel their driveway you'd know
        there were twice as many.
 
Happy January.
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Geoffrey S. Nathan
Department of Linguistics
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL, 62901-4517
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