Showing posts with label eskimos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eskimos. Show all posts

Friday, September 26, 2008

QI: Eskimo Pronouns

Stephen Fry negates the widely-held belief that Eskimos have scores of names for snow, and instead asserts that the Aleutian language features 32 demonstrative pronouns, compared to English's four or five.

The relevant part of this clip begins at about 3:38 and terminates at about 5:25.



Quite interesting.