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  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    The First Nations have 30 different words for snow. Finns and Estonians have 30 different way of saying "Yes we collaborated with the Nazis, but..."

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      TBH, it's not good to forget about people who fought for the USSR, like 8th Estonian Rifle Corps. Fascists made enormous efforts to erase their memory, and we shouldn't let fascists be successful.

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      7 months ago

      Also note that this factoid (word choice intentional) is completely bogus.

      Did you know that white people have over 30 words for water!

      They call it: river, lake, creek, ocean, sea, ice, sleet, steam, vapour, frost, condensation, rain, glacier, snowdrift, icicle, cloud, rivulet, estuary, wave, drop, damp, moisture, snowflake, snow, graupel, blizzard, hail, rime, tide, lagoon, oasis, canal...

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        yea but everyone has 30 different words for water

        off the top of my head for snow, I can think of:

        snow, snowflake, glacier, ice, icicle, iceberg, frost, hail, sleet, flurry, blizzard

        Maybe a few that I'm missing but yea I think they have more especially when you account for population, resources and leisure time (all of which help create a larger verbal culture, and all of which are comically higher, by like 100-1,000,000x, for white people)

        • ReadFanon [any, any]
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          7 months ago

          My point is that something that comes in a variety of forms which your culture has regular contact with is going to have a lot of words describing this particular thing.

          I used water because it's easy to grasp how this myth is bogus but there are a ton of snow-related terms which I listed in English above which you have missed.

          I was illustrating how it's not really a matter of having an abundance of words for one thing but a number of words to describe something which takes on many different forms in order to describe/distinguish between these forms. I could have just as easily said that English has over 30 words for cat:

          Housecat, barn cat, puma, Russian blue, cheetah, lynx, Pallas, feline, leopard, Burmese, lion, tiger, panther, jaguar, ocelot, caracal, Garfield, tomcat, Sphynx, calico, snow leopard, Maine coo-n, cougar, alleycat, sabre-tooth, jungle cat, bobcat, Cheshire cat, ragdoll, Scottish fold...

          It's not about how Eskimos have over 30 different words for the same type of snow, it's about undermining this orientalist perspective that we have about different cultures; if I said that Chinese has over 30 different words for rice it's playing directly into this notion but if I explained that English has over 30 different words for rice it becomes a tedious, mundane list of different rice varieties and ways of preparation.

          Linguists have discussed this trope for decades and there really isn't any significant difference in the number of words that Eskimos use for snow compared to a language like English.

          • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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            7 months ago

            IDIOT DOOM SPIRAL - "You know, Tequila." He taps the side of his nose twice. "Nose candy. The white railroad. Party powder!"