May I offer an update to the words for snow cliché? I am not Indigenous. I had the pleasure and honour to learn some Inuktitut in a sociolinguistics class at university, and I live in Edmonton in Treaty 6 territory, home to the largest population of Inuit people south of the 60th parallel. You may find the clarifications in this short article interesting. https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/articles/en/inuktitut-hundred-names-for-snow/
Thanks for the link. The Inuit dictionary it mentions lists only a handful of stem words for snow. So I guess South African weed names > Inuit snow names > Costa Rican rodent names.
Dan Janzen, who helped create CR's national park system, tried hard to develop local talent into "biological prospectors" in an effort to unlock hidden talent & natural resources. Years later when I was at Givaudan I brought him in to pitch R&D--he brought a box of scented butterflies.
As I finished reading this, I heard the sad trombone in my head.
May I offer an update to the words for snow cliché? I am not Indigenous. I had the pleasure and honour to learn some Inuktitut in a sociolinguistics class at university, and I live in Edmonton in Treaty 6 territory, home to the largest population of Inuit people south of the 60th parallel. You may find the clarifications in this short article interesting. https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/articles/en/inuktitut-hundred-names-for-snow/
Thanks for the link. The Inuit dictionary it mentions lists only a handful of stem words for snow. So I guess South African weed names > Inuit snow names > Costa Rican rodent names.
Dan Janzen, who helped create CR's national park system, tried hard to develop local talent into "biological prospectors" in an effort to unlock hidden talent & natural resources. Years later when I was at Givaudan I brought him in to pitch R&D--he brought a box of scented butterflies.