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Focal vocabulary hypothesis
Part of the supposition is that Eskimo languages would have a focal vocabulary with several extra words to describe snow, which is specifically the point of Boas's theory. They deal with snow more than other cultures, just as artists have more words to describe the various details of their profession — what a non-artist calls "paint", the artist identifies as "oil paint", "acrylic paint", "tempera", or "watercolor". This does not mean that these two individuals are observing two different objects, nor does it mean that the artist would be confused by the idea that oil paint and acrylic paint are related. Likewise in English, the words "blizzard", "flurry", "pack", "slush," "drift", "sleet," and "powder" refer to different types of snow, but all are recognized as varieties of "snow" in a general sense.
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02 Jul 12
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lexeme
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A dictionary definition of compound is 'a word made of words' like firefighter, study hour, and left-handed.[12] Thus, high school (with a space) is one word.
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15 Feb 12
east silvereastEuropean Sami People, an indigenous circumpolar group, do have hundreds of words for snow
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13 Apr 10
April Mains@chrisbrogan actually the Inuit don't have 100 words for snow - that is an urban legend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
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