{"id":4957,"date":"2013-01-16T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T11:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2013-01-16T11:46:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T11:46:01","slug":"snow-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/snow-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advice from <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4419\" target=\"_blank\">Geoffrey Pullum<\/a>, when faced with people who tell you that Eskimos have multiple words for &#8220;snow&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stand up and tell the speaker this:\u00a0 C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen&#8217;s <em>Dictionary of the West Greenlandic Eskimo Language<\/em> (1927) gives just two possibly relevant roots: <em>qanik<\/em>, meaning &#8216;snow in the air&#8217; or &#8216;snowflake&#8217;, and <em>aput<\/em>, meaning &#8216;snow on the ground&#8217;. Then add that you would be interested to know if the speaker can cite any more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>References:<\/em><br \/>\nG. K. Pullum [1989]: The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax.\u00a0 <em>Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/em>, <strong>7:<\/strong> 275-281.\u00a0 Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lel.ed.ac.uk\/~gpullum\/EskimoHoax.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nC. W. Schultz-Lorentzen [1927]:\u00a0 Dictionary of the West Greenlandic Eskimo Language. <em>Meddelelser om Gr\u00f8nland<\/em>, <strong>69<\/strong>, Reitzels, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice from Geoffrey Pullum, when faced with people who tell you that Eskimos have multiple words for &#8220;snow&#8221;: Stand up and tell the speaker this:\u00a0 C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen&#8217;s Dictionary of the West Greenlandic Eskimo Language (1927) gives just two possibly relevant roots: qanik, meaning &#8216;snow in the air&#8217; or &#8216;snowflake&#8217;, and aput, meaning &#8216;snow on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","p1","y2013","m01","d16","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}