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.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
QI: Eskimo Pronouns
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