The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe > Podcast Episodes
Episode #338
MikeHz:
I remember reading about a reported asking an Unuit about this. "I hear you have dozens of words for snow."
"Naw. We just call it white shit like everyone else."
uolj:
--- Quote from: RHC on Jan 18, 2012, 04:21:18 PM ---I have to challenge Rebecca's perpetuation of the myth about the Inuit having a large number of names for snow.
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I think she actually acknowledged it as a myth when she mentioned it. "The old, incorrect standby is that the Inuit have a million words for snow."
RHC:
--- Quote from: uolj on Jan 18, 2012, 06:27:26 PM ---
I think she actually acknowledged it as a myth when she mentioned it. "The old, incorrect standby is that the Inuit have a million words for snow."
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Thanks for that, I was in the gym listening to my iPod, so I must have missed her disclaimer with all the background noise. It's still an interesting point though, as a lot of people believe it to be true. Last year my lecturer at Sydney University quoted this myth as fact, to a postgraduate class of 20. I wish I'd had my facts ready on that day.
Chew:
A cartoon I read years ago had the caption: "Eskimos have 80 words for snow but only 19 for a fixed rate mortgage."
Mirkady:
Maybe I've missed it, but did no-one else think it odd that the review of major news stories not predicted didn't mention the Arab Spring leading to the overthrow of the Tunisian government, the Egyptian government and the overthrow of - and death of - Colonel Gaddafi in Lybia? Or for that matter the Euro currency crisis leading to the toppling of governments in Greece and Italy?
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